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Current conditions as of 6:35 pm CDT

Cloudy

Feels Like:: 19°
Barometer:: 1016 mb and falling
Humidity:: 83%
Visibility:: 16.09 km
Dewpoint:: 16°
Wind:: E 24 kph
Sunrise:: 6:36 am
Sunset:: 7:25 pm

19°

High: 24° Low: 14°

Today	Tomorrow	Sun	Mon	Tue	6-10 Day
T-showers/Wind	T-showers/Wind	Scattered T-storms	Isolated T-storms	Scattered T-storms
High: 23° Low: 15°	High: 24° Low: 14°	High: 25° Low: 16°	High: 24° Low: 16°	High: 25° Low: 14°

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Tonight: Windy with an isolated thunderstorm or two possible this evening. Then some showers later on. Low 59F. Winds E at 20 to 30 mph. Chance of rain 50%.
Tomorrow: Showers early, then thundershowers arriving later in the day. Gusty winds. High around 75F. Winds ESE at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
Tomorrow night: Showers and thundershowers during the evening followed by a few lingering showers overnight. Low 57F. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
Sunday: Scattered showers and thunderstorms. High 77F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 60%.
Monday: Scattered thunderstorms. Highs in the upper 70s and lows in the low 60s.
Tuesday: Partly cloudy, chance of a thunderstorm. Highs in the mid 70s and lows in the low 60s.

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Bush declares emergency in Louisiana, Texas

AFP- 59 minutes ago

AFP - US President George W. Bush on Friday declared a state of emergency in Louisiana and Texas in the face of killer Hurricane Gustav, freeing up aid from Washington three years after Hurricane Katrina.

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Katrina's unclaimed dead entombed, Gustav looms AP - 1 hour, 14 minutes ago
AP - At 9:38 a.m. on Friday, about 200 mourners rang handbells to mark the moment three years ago when New Orleans' levees were breached by high waters from Hurricane Katrina, flooding most of the city and leading to the deaths of about 1,600 people.
New Orleans eyes new storm on Katrina anniversary AFP - 1 hour, 46 minutes ago
AFP - Exactly three years after deadly Hurricane Katrina slammed New Orleans, authorities on Friday begin bussing people out of the city ahead of the possible landfall of Gustav, forecast to hit the area early Tuesday as a powerful Category Three hurricane.
Forecasters: Gustav strengthens into a hurricane AP - 2 hours, 34 minutes ago
AP - On the same day that residents marked the three-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's wrath, another storm strengthened into a hurricane miles away and threatened to hit the Gulf Coast once again.
A hurricane again, Gustav plows toward Caymans AP - 2 hours, 35 minutes ago
AP - Gustav became a hurricane again on Friday as it plowed toward Cayman Islands resorts, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina.
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