Margaret Orr

Cool mornings and mild days through Friday

Some patchy fog Sunday morning

After more than four decades appearing on New Orleans' airwaves, WDSU-TV reporter and chief meteorologist Margaret Orr signed off for the final time in March 2024. Raised in New Orleans and educated at LSU, Orr found her calling the summer after her junior year, when she worked at a television station in Waco, Texas. Orr studied weather and cut her teeth in Charleston and on WBRZ in Baton Rouge before landing at WDSU in 1979. The Historic New Orleans Collection interviewed Orr about her career for their series, NOLA Life Stories.

We don't have experience of strong storms forming this early in the hurricane season.

The military's professional responsibility is to provide unbridled advice to civilian leadership and accept that final decisions rest with those elected by the American people. In return, the military expects to remain apolitical and not be used as a partisan tool. Ours is one of the few nations whose military swears allegiance to a system of government and not a dictator, king, queen or president.

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According to WDSU Chief Meteorologist Emeritus Margaret Orr, the way the ingredients came together during the summer of 2005 to create Hurricane Katrina was just plain bad luck.