Jump to content

cptcatz

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    1,028

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by cptcatz

  1. cptcatz
    Is it too early to start looking ahead at the models? CMC for a week from Tuesday
  2. cptcatz
    150 knots about 200 meters high...
  3. cptcatz
    The radar loop looks like the eye is moving north of northwest and is on track to make a beeline for downtown New Orleans.
  4. cptcatz
    Is it me or in the last hour did a new tiny eye just come in from the east and replace the old tiny eye?
  5. cptcatz
    Gonna be last year's Eta hilarious fantasy chaos as the next plane approaches the center.
  6. cptcatz
    Reminds me of last year when the plane was half way to Eta and then turned around during the most impressive satellite presentation of the storm and probably a cat 5.
  7. cptcatz
    Oh man that's a bummer at this point. Also looks like the NOAA plane is finished after only two center fixes. That's strange as the storm isn't far at all from Lakeland so they should have plenty of fuel.
  8. cptcatz
    Seriously. Imagine the outrage if it came to light that "the authorities" faked numbers in order to encourage people to do something which the authorities believed was best for the people but the people may not have agreed.
  9. cptcatz
    I don't mean to downplay the potential surge from Ida, but at this point in the gulf Katrina was an enormous 902 mb cat 5 monster which was pushing much more water than Ida is now or probably will ever. We'll probably never see anything match Katrina's surge.
  10. cptcatz
    "Biggest storm since Katrina" is saying that Ida will not be as big as Katrina but will be bigger than every storm that has come between Katrina and now. Would you disagree that this will be the biggest storm since Katrina that New Orleans has faced?
  11. cptcatz
    CMC's forecast for Labor Day...
  12. cptcatz
    Lol. I've always been interested in how ancient people experienced natural disasters for the first time. Imagine being a European colonist just settling in some tropical paradise in the Caribbean, and then you get hit by an eye of a major hurricane. Like that's gotta be a real "wtf is happening?!" moment.
  13. cptcatz
    I remember in the early 1500s when us colonists didn't even know what a hurricane was. Man that first one that hit us was sure a surprise!
  14. cptcatz
    Nice thing from here on out is the NOAA and AF planes will have a short trip to get to the storm. Nothing worse than a plane taking off and thinking ok it will be in the storm in 3 hours from now.
  15. cptcatz
    Since it's 2021 maybe we should just ask Ida what it/she/he/zhe/they identify as instead of us just assuming?
  16. cptcatz
    No sorry, the National Hurricane Center names hurricanes with definitive male or female name. Male named hurricanes are "he" and female named hurricanes are "she". Ida is a she.
  17. cptcatz
    First eye dropsonde launched at 9:44 measured 987 mb with 8 kts wind. Second eye dropsonde launched at 11:01 measured 986 mb with 11 kts wind. Seems like it's intensifying.
  18. cptcatz
    Having lived through it as well, it was the worst natural disaster in NYC history. Why would you expect it to not be talked about on a tropical weather forum?
  19. cptcatz
    Looks like there's one slim strip of mountains it will go over. From what I can tell the highest peaks are under 2,000 feet with most of the range being less than 1,000 feet. Compare that to the 14,000 foot peaks of Hispaniola, this shouldn't do much.
  20. cptcatz
    The reduced time frame will also limit storm surge.
  21. cptcatz
    With the center being so far north in the Caribbean and all the convection to the north and east of the center, it may very well brush you in Tampa Bay. GFS shows this, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it get even closer.
  22. cptcatz
    Any chance it does a Charley/Wilma turn and slam Florida?
  23. cptcatz
    Zeta's eye went right over New Orleans last year after making landfall with winds of 115 mph. Seemed like New Orleans was barely affected by Zeta though. Why were the effects minimal in Zeta but expected to be catastrophic with this?
  24. cptcatz
    The way I see it is you can hope and wish for the biggest destructive storm or you can hope and wish for sunshine all year, but at the end of the day your hoping and wishing has absolutely zero impact on what will actually happen. As long as you're not making light of someone else's actual misery, I say hope and wish for whatever you want.
  25. cptcatz
    Euro going all in on this MDR storm. Would be a massive ACE maker regardless where it goes.
×
×
  • Create New...