Cat 2 before she hits the coast. Getting everything ready.
Not looking good
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Good luck, and I hope it doesn't turn toward us in SW Florida.
That part of the eastern midwest and midsouth has already gotten enough rain from earlier tropical systems passing through. Ground is practically saturated. Damn...
Don't they usually push right across to the pacific when they hit that low? Be nice if it hooked up and pushed some moister to CO. We are dryer than a popcorn fart.
This was not your normal storm. Most, develop as lows in the African Sahara, travel with the trade winds in equatorial Atlantic and then enter the Caribbean IF, a pressure system does not turn them north. Then they can enter the Gulf after crossing florida or go up the east coast or die in the middle of the Atlantic.
Those storms that enter the Caribbean do as you say, push across Mexico or Central America or they turn north and enter the Gulf where if Shear or a previous hurricane has not stolen the heat, become REAL Powerhosues. (Read Camille, second strongest storm to ever hit mainland US)
However, Francine is much like Audrey. Actually Francine started as a low pressure system just off the Texas Louisiana coast. Hung around for a few days and got us all really wet. Then, the low pressure moved south, staying over the water. As systems often do, over warm water, with a lack of shear, they get organized and do some hurt.
Audrey of 1957 basically developed out of nothing in the Gulf, early in the season. She developed into a Cat 4 storm, and “stormed ashore much sooner than expected, basically destroying Cameron Parish with multiple loss of life.
Francine is now expected to come ashore as a cat 2, and with the abilities of modern forecasting, the only real loss of life will be by people who do not heed warnings.
Hurricane Camille - Wikipedia
Camille. Before Camille, it was always thought that small hurricanes were weak hurricanes. A few hours before she was to make landfall, a hurricane hunter penetrated her eye. What they found was frightening. Her pressure was in the 800 millibar range and winds of 200mph were found. They radioed back that information and an emergency evacuation saved thousands. Everyone thinks Katrina was bad and it did have a large storm surge, but Camille, she was a heart breaker.
Sorry for the hurricane primer. At 7 years of age, Audrey scared the shit out of me and I have studied the things ever since.
Sitting here in Lafayette. Not much else to do. Generator ready. Sitting on 20 gallons of fuel. Grocery run made. Love that they’ve canceled school for the next 3 days. My kids gonna drive my wife nuts lol
One computer model has it going up Texas along what appears to be the College Station / Tyler line. (Approximately). Still too far east to do much for the hill country. Thanks to a rare summer cold front and the beginning of Francine last week, we have more water in Caney Creek Lake in the month of September than I can ever remember in my30+ years of living here. (Grass is green as grass too, that’s VERY unusual for September)
In realtime:
Click on the button at the bottom for their projection. NOLA's about to get fooked.
The best website on this stuff is tropicaltidbits.com. it's what the professionals use for a good overview. The guy who runs it is autistic as hell about hurricanes.
Just talked to my buddy in Houma.
Still out in the john boat near clear lake…….
Born n raised, he is a goofy one!!!
Still out in the john boat near clear lake…….
Born n raised, he is a goofy one!!!
Prolly singin this song...Just talked to my buddy in Houma.
Still out in the john boat near clear lake…….
Born n raised, he is a goofy one!!!
I live in Florida and do absolutely nothing for a cat one…. The media is hysterical as usual.
Of course if you live in a low area you will have to worry about flooding.
Of course if you live in a low area you will have to worry about flooding.
Agreed. Plus I’m 47 miles from the coast. The grocery stores are slammed. Places are out of fuel. We’re working tomorrow and Thursday lol
Sally wasn’t much of a hurricane. So little that I gave no thought to our 26 foot boat, on her trailer which both boat and trailer were securely anchored at her parking space. Totally wrecked her. Like you say, cat one isn’t much till it puts a pine tree though the middle of your house. Or floods your home.
We are two hundred miles from the coast but the area received major damage from both Rita and Laura, who were both still cat 1 storms when they came though. Which leads me to think, if North Dakota is nice this time of year. (My worry, our son is on the coast in NW Florida and my aged sister lives on the West Bank across from New Orleans.) Our son bogies out when storms approach, my sister is a “Won’t Budger” Talked to her this morning, she isn’t leaving.
Guess Brenda and I will have a hurricane party tomorrow which from the track, might mean a good day to go shooting.
We are two hundred miles from the coast but the area received major damage from both Rita and Laura, who were both still cat 1 storms when they came though. Which leads me to think, if North Dakota is nice this time of year. (My worry, our son is on the coast in NW Florida and my aged sister lives on the West Bank across from New Orleans.) Our son bogies out when storms approach, my sister is a “Won’t Budger” Talked to her this morning, she isn’t leaving.
Guess Brenda and I will have a hurricane party tomorrow which from the track, might mean a good day to go shooting.
Hope everyone stays safe.
With that said you know climate fear porn is working when cat 2 gets everyone worked up...
Its like "feels like" temperatures and the changes to the temperature gradiant they use on the news.
Shit,...now high 80's is bright ass kill you red with 90's some sort of nuclear-glow magenta/red shit...
With that said you know climate fear porn is working when cat 2 gets everyone worked up...
Its like "feels like" temperatures and the changes to the temperature gradiant they use on the news.
Shit,...now high 80's is bright ass kill you red with 90's some sort of nuclear-glow magenta/red shit...
Category 1 is equivalent of a strong Northeast winter storm which can easily produce sustained 74+mph wind in NYC along with 3" of snow an hour, and 86+mph on coastal Rhode Island with a lot of beach erosion and storm surge. Cat 1 strength winter storms are actually far more dangerous than the hurricane counterpart due to wind chill factor. At 26-30°F ambient, 74mph winds will equal -12°F, like a restaurant kitchen's blast chiller unit. People leaving snow-stalled cars during these storms and trying to walk somewhere have been found frozen to death afterward. Very dangerous even with layers on.
With a hurricane of any strength, flooding is the major killer. Rain plus storm surge can turn any low lying area into a temporary sea for days. Sandy was less than a Cat 1 when it hit NYC and NJ but brought about 16 feet of seawater to every coastal and riverfront neighborhood in the Big Apple. The flood absolutely wrecked the N/R local subway line from DeKalb Ave in Brooklyn to City Hall in Manhattan. The entire section of that line was completely submerged.
Link to local weather
https://weather.com/weather/radar/i...dbcb7e6d25d51085d517ef2b3c0ff864ea9bd2390bfc4
4PM Some rain, no wind yet.
7PM More rain, light wind, heard transformer go in distance.
https://weather.com/weather/radar/i...dbcb7e6d25d51085d517ef2b3c0ff864ea9bd2390bfc4
4PM Some rain, no wind yet.
7PM More rain, light wind, heard transformer go in distance.
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Praying that all of your stay safe and get through this unscathed.
Looks like it's all gone. We made it.
Had one power glitch.
Took out security monitor, reset a bunch of clocks.
Will have to look around the yard later but we never really had much wind.
Will check creek for a day or so.
Had one power glitch.
Took out security monitor, reset a bunch of clocks.
Will have to look around the yard later but we never really had much wind.
Will check creek for a day or so.
My buddy in Houma kept me updated all day.
Some wild vids of the lake behind his house, but cant post em here.
Sent this last evening
Blue dot is him
Some wild vids of the lake behind his house, but cant post em here.
Sent this last evening
Blue dot is him
Katrina wreaked havoc because of the chocolate mayor.
