HURACAN KAREN TORMENTAS

Arriving in the waning weeks of a quiet hurricane season, Tropical Storm Karen chugged its way toward the Gulf Coast on Friday, prompting the usual preparations and drawing federal response.
The slowly weakening storm was moving toward land at around 7 miles an hour, and was 235 miles southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River. It is expected to slow considerably before making a right turn toward the Alabama and Florida coastline, but it is likely first to pass across the southeastern tip of Louisiana on Saturday night. Heavy rainfall is expected all along the coast, with as much as 10 inches in some isolated areas.
The storm is currently not expected to reach hurricane strength, but officials with the National Hurricane Center insisted, as they do every year, that residents in its path should not dwell too much on storm categories or rely too strictly on the black line that delineates a storm’s predicted trajectory.

cortesia nyt.com