Barry is now a tropical depression in Arkansas but state State Climatologist Barry Keim says you have to forgive forecasters for using the information available and predicting a Category One hurricane would make landfall in southwest Louisiana four days before it actually happened…
Keim says forecasters use multiple models in order to come up with a rainfall prediction, but in this case, they were not accurate
The system knocked out power all along the coast as hurricane and tropical storm force winds knocked down power lines. Governor Edwards says the final numbers were substantial.
The majority of those outages occurred in coastal parishes.
SEC Media Days kicks off in Birmingham, Alabama today, Braden Gall covers college football for Athlon Sports and ESPN-U Radio. Gall says Alabama goes in as the preseason favorite in the SEC West again. Texas A-and-M is facing a difficult schedule, so Gall believes Auburn could be the other team that challenges the Crimson tide for SEC West supremacy.
LSU receives a grant worth nearly $400-thousand from the Institute of Museum and Library Science to creation virtual footlockers. Assistant Professor of Library and Information Science Ed Benoit says while the project is focusing on vets of the 21st century, they hope to expand the scope of the project.