does this look like, very "red", right over New Orleans?

[annabanana]

http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float-ir4-loop.html

on edit: for broadband only.. wait for it to come all the way up

[sam sarrha]

1. worst possable position to empty the lake into N.O.

[annabanana]

2. you see it too...

I thought I was losing it

[Tin Man]

9. Very bad...

potential for Lake Pontchatrain to flood N.O. is very high right now.

[Roland99]

3. Moving north at 15mph...40 SE of N.O.

135mph winds
923mb

[spinbaby]

4. What do the colors mean?

I'm not clear on what I'm seeing.

[Bridget Burke]

5. There's a "key" at the bottom of the picture....

Red means Bad.

[spinbaby]

7. Bad what?

Rain? Wind?

[demo dutch]

10. It means heavy rain, & possibly tornados which develop inside a

hurricane, that touch down. That's what happened during Andrew some at 200 phm

[annabanana]

6. the redder, the more intense the storm

Downtown New Orlean is on the south shore of Lake Pontchartrain.

[0007]

8. Holy moley!

[JHB]

11. Total rainfall link

This is for the storm total rainfall levels. Go to the link below and see the sidebar for other radar views.

http://radar.weather.gov/radar/latest/DS.80stp/si.klix.shtml