Larry Mowry Quotations

We are stuck in a blocking pattern. We have been dominated by a ridge of high pressure that blocks the movement of storms into the area.

We are not going to warm up at all during the day Friday, and it will turn windy. We are going to see wind chills tomorrow in the 40s all day long.

These are the highest percentages for this area in the last four years.

Temperatures will be dropping into the 20s and here in Orlando to 29 degrees.

The tornado watch has sort of whittled away. It did include Orlando earlier this morning and shifted southward. The threat has decreased here in Orlando.

The projected path of movement swings it away from Central Florida and then curves it toward the Panhandle by the time we get to Monday with a projected landfall roughly between Apalachicola and New Orleans. That is the uncertainty we still have with the next landfall. But the path of Katrina takes it toward the Panhandle and well away from Central Florida.

Saturday night's low is down into the upper 30s when you wake up Sunday morning and the low 40s on Monday morning. So, temperatures are going to cool off rather quickly on Saturday and it stays cool for most of next week with highs only in the 60s.

This will be the coldest night in three years in Central Florida. The last time we were below freezing here in Orlando was back in January of 2003 but it is likely to happen tonight.

The storm will likely continue to grow before it makes landfall right near Fort Lauderdale, Fla., roughly between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. is the projected time.

He said there is a chance of a major hurricane striking the Gulf Coast. That percentage chance is at 47 percent.