The low-pressure center representing the remains of Hurricane Gustav is
still centered over northern Arkansas and southern Missouri, based on the
most recent weather maps from early this afternoon (Thursday Sept. 4), so it
hasn't moved very fast in the last day or so.  But at least some forecasts
are now saying that this low-pressure center is going to track rapidly
northeast from there, being over Indiana by sometime this evening and over
the general area of northeastern Indiana to southwestern Ontario by Friday
morning.  IF it proceeds in this way, rain moving ahead of the system may
finally bring more relief to the parched areas of northwestern Ohio.  It's
unlikely that the remains of the storm still have enough structure to carry
any birds north.  But if the storm were still in more cohesive form, western
Lake Erie or lakes in the interior of western Ohio would be in the path of
where hurricane-waif birds might show up.  There are a lot of "ifs" in the
preceding sentences and I don't really expect anything to come of this, but
I'm going to be looking around at water areas tomorrow just in case.

Kenn Kaufman
Oak Harbor, Ohio

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