Hurricane Gustav is very close to making landfall this Labor Day morning along the Lousiana coast. This system is expected to slow down and produce large amounts of rainfall. Eventually, this system will work north and bring some rain to Iowa.

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(Hard to pass up not using that feature title.) Dolly is a strong category 1 strength hurricane that is expected to make landfall along the Texas coast today. NEXRAD composite imagery shows the well defined eye and a tornado watch is in effect for the right front quadrant, which is favored for tornado development during landfall. The primary impact looks to be extremely heavy rainfall as the system moves slowly west. Sometimes these systems will eventually work their way toward Iowa, but the steering currents in the atmosphere do not favour that path.

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Hurricane Wilma made landfall this morning near Cape Romano packing winds up to 125 mph. The featured plot shows peak gusts from the Florida ASOS network up till 7 AM this Monday morning. Wilma is in a hurry and will be well east of Florida by later this afternoon.

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It is going to be a long weekend for our friends along the gulf coast. Hurricane Rita is set to come onshore Saturday and slowly move north. The big story may be the tremendous amounts of rain (20+ inches) that may fall over the weekend.

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Hurricane Katrina is moving onshore early this Monday morning as a category 4 storm. An automated sensor in New Orleans has recorded a peak gust of 74 knots with the strongest winds expected later this morning.

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Ivan came ashore early this morning in grand fashion with a beavy of reporters standing in its way. Ivan will continue to weaken and move slowly to the NE dumping many inches of rainfall on folks in the SE US. The red box on this plot represents a tornado watch. Ivan has already produced deadly tornados in Florida.

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The folks in Florida are counting down the hours until the arrival of Frances. This well advertised hurricane has prompted the evacuation of millions of people and is expected to do considerable damage with winds nearing CAT 4 strength. For Iowa, landfalling hurricanes usually mean that our weather slows down with storm systems finding it difficult to get to the East Coast.

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Hurricane Isabel will make landfall later today. Current NEXRAD composite shows this system nicely.

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Hurricane Lili came ashore this morning packing winds of over 100 MPH. Like Isidore, this system will slide to our south and east. We are stuck between really warm air and really cool air with lots of clouds and good chances of rain.

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In times like this, it is a good thing that Iowa does not have any ocean-front property. Tropical Storm Isidore moved on-shore this morning and is projected to stay SE of Iowa. Meanwhile, a cold front is parked in NW Iowa waiting for Isidore to pass before completing its trek across Iowa.

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