Tropical Storm Hanna drenched the Bahamas and triggered deadly flooding in Haiti on Tuesday, as it headed for expected landfall in the southeastern USA later this week. Meanwhile, a new tropical storm, Josephine, formed off Africa, behind Tropical Storm Ike.

Gustav is a Category 2 hurricane with winds of 110 mph and has made landfall south of Houma, La. At 10:00 a.m. CDT, the hurricane was located near 29.2 north, 90.8 west. That is 70 miles southwest of New Orleans, La. and 100 miles southeast of Lafayette, La. Gustav is moving northwest at 15 mph.

While everyone’s attention was focused on Gustav, forecast to be near the coast of Louisiana as a Category 3 storm in 120 hours, the eighth tropical storm of the season formed Thursday morning northeast of the Leeward Islands in the Atlantic. Tropical Storm Hanna is expected to strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane within 72 hours.