Gustav Slowly Dies- Hanna Threatens

Gustav has become a tropical depression- but still threatens to drop excessive rains in the mid to lower Mississippi Valley.

The Kansas City MetroRegion will be affected by the remains of Gustav interacting with a cool front later today into Thursday.

Here is a visible satellite photo showing Gustav in the mid-upper left and Hanna on the lower right of the image.

Now of concern is Tropical Storm Hanna- located east of the Bermudas. Hanna is pegged by weather models to become a hurricane before it slams into the Southeastern U.S. Atlantic coast later this week.

Shown here are some of the operational weather models that specialize in hurricane predicition (click on all images here for full resolution).

These are the GFDL and HWRF models- shown side by side during the same time intervals- from the 1am CDT model initiation.

Note that the GFDL has Hanna more than 20 knots stronger- but both show a landfall either on or between Jacksonville-FL to Charleston-SC- by later this week.

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