Fortunately it looks like the impact of Gustav was not as bad as forecasted. The storm downgraded from a Category 3 to Category 2 storm before it made landfall. There has still been fairly extensive flooding and the additional rain brought by the trailing side of the storm could cause a continuing threat. To examine the potential impact of flooding Raj grabbed the five day precipitation predictions from NOAA and pushed it up to Finder. The map tells an interesting tale:
From the NOAA prediction data it looks like the Mississippi River Valley could be experiencing a large amount of precipitation and possible flooding. This could be particularly difficult for those areas just recovering from flooding this summer.
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Hello,
Could you tell me where these two maps come from ?
Hi Landry,
Raj Kulkarni made both of the maps with the data linked in the post. He used ESRI ArcScene and ArcGlbe respectively. You could something similar with Google Earth and Bjorn’s Thematic Mapping Engine if you do not have ESRI.
best,
sean