Tropical Storm Barry has slowed to a crawl, slowly moving forward to the west-northwest at three miles per hour.
The storm's maximum sustained winds remain at 65 miles per hour as of the National Hurricane Center's 10:00 p.m. update.
"A motion toward the northwest should begin overnight, followed by a turn toward the north Saturday night or Sunday," said Senior Hurricane Specialist Daniel Brown. "On the forecast track, the center of Barry will approach the south-central coast of Louisiana tonight and then make landfall along the south-central Louisiana coast on Saturday."
Brown's boss, National Hurricane Center Director Ken Graham, says at this point, you don't even need to think about the track.
"None of that's going to have anything to do with the impact," Graham said. "I wouldn't even pay attention to the track.
Graham said the rainfall from Barry will be the major concern.
"It's about this big area of moisture moving northward. That's what we've got to focus on, where that rain's going to be set up."
Barry is predicted to dump 10 to 20 inches if rain, and a lot of it appears to be trailing to the south of the storm's center -- meaning the worst of its weather will happen after most of the storm has passed overhead.
