jm1220 Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Bourbon St is definitely sheltered in many places. I’m sure downtown where there are many high rises will have substantially worse wind damage. People were expecting a minimal hurricane or cat 1 this morning so definitely a worse impact than thought. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eyewall Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 On 10/28/2020 at 11:13 PM, etudiant said: Bourbon St in the French Quarter is pretty much the highest ground in NOLA afaik. Guess they just got lucky. In any case, the cameras are back on and the winds appear to have died down, presumably the eye passing. Expand NOLA is in the middle of the eye but there is no real back half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan11295 Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 West side of N.O. will probably have minimal damage due to asymmetric nature of Zeta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NavarreDon Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Found this little gem while checking our weather.. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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BombsAway1288 Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Def much stronger winds than I was expecting. Watching those winds in downtown NO on TWC was impressive. Probably the best live coverage I've seen them do for a landfalling hurricane. 24 hrs ago this was a 65mph tropical storm. What happened? lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Windspeed Posted October 28, 2020 Author Share Posted October 28, 2020 Crazy amount of couplets with this hurricane. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 On 10/28/2020 at 11:27 PM, BombsAway1288 said: Def much stronger winds than I was expecting. Watching those winds in downtown NO on TWC was impressive. Probably the best live coverage I've seen them do for a landfalling hurricane. 24 hrs ago this was a 65mph tropical storm. What happened? lol Expand It got stronger. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MN Transplant Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 Gust to 71 on the left side at MSY. Not shabby. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prospero Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 How a drive across the Pontchartrain Causeway? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
etudiant Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 On 10/28/2020 at 10:59 PM, Moderately Unstable said: So, basically it has to do with the convective structure of the storm. From the eye, air twists upwards and circulates outwards in a divergent pattern. Surrounding concentric rings of convection form because certain regions concentrate momentum and energy. Imagine a bunch of big vertically oriented ovals. Air rises, is ejected outwards, and then descends further away from the center of circulation. This creates alternating regions of rising and sinking air motion. The stronger the storm, the more well organized, curved, and structured, these bands get. MU Expand Thank you, that helps some. Guess these things are a lot more complicated than they look at first glance. Time to hit the books again. Suggestions would be very welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sickman Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 The setup is reminiscent of Chariey, taking advantage of the trough position accelerating the outflow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prospero Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 We might get a week or two before the next LA hurricane... 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gymengineer Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 On 10/28/2020 at 11:42 PM, MN Transplant said: Gust to 71 on the left side at MSY. Not shabby. Expand And FOX8 just recorded 90 mph on the rainless back side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wild Weather Monger Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 On 10/28/2020 at 11:50 PM, Prospero said: We might get a week or two before the next LA hurricane... Expand Why not? There is a patch of untouched water in the Bay of Campeche. 1 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qg_omega Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 On 10/28/2020 at 11:15 PM, eyewall said: NOLA is in the middle of the eye but there is no real back half. Expand Weather channel showed a drone flying during the eye, power on and downtown looked fine, the high winds were very short duration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dan11295 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 On 10/29/2020 at 12:00 AM, qg_omega said: Weather channel showed a drone flying during the eye, power on and downtown looked fine, the high winds were very short duration Expand Short duration will limit damage in New Orleans proper for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaggy Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Big flare up over the eastern core as it moves inland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BombsAway1288 Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 On 10/28/2020 at 11:39 PM, Nibor said: It got stronger. Expand Clearly. Was kind of going with a rhetorical question there. Guess the question or statement should have been more geared towards to how did this just explode so fast in the northern Gulf in late October, just as Greg Postel was referring to in his tweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prospero Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Tornado? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the ghost of leroy Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Best storm of the season. This one is a ripper. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calderon Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Power just failed for much of Biloxi on the peninsula. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 On 10/28/2020 at 10:31 PM, andyhb said: These are some big gusts coming out of where it made landfall. Also reports of significant structural damage in the area. Expand the 125-136 measurements for gusts are similar to what was reported for Laura out in SW Louisiana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calderon Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 Surge now coming over much of Hwy 90 in Biloxi. There's that fast water rise they've all talked about. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windspeed Posted October 29, 2020 Author Share Posted October 29, 2020 Couldn't resist posting this... 2 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibor Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 On 10/29/2020 at 12:22 AM, BombsAway1288 said: Clearly. Was kind of going with a rhetorical question there. Guess the question or statement should have been more geared towards to how did this just explode so fast in the northern Gulf in late October, just as Greg Postel was referring to in his tweet. Expand I know, just being a smartass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibertyBell Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 On 10/28/2020 at 10:52 PM, eyewall said: Apparently media states a 108 mph gust reported in NOLA. Expand the official reporting location is the airport which is in the western part of the city, correct? so they wont get the strongest winds there. But there should be other high order stations in and around the city to make up for it. Do you or does anyone have a list of the strongest hurricanes that have directly hit NOLA and the strongest winds reported there (100+)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prospero Posted October 29, 2020 Share Posted October 29, 2020 On 10/29/2020 at 12:30 AM, Calderon said: Surge now coming over much of Hwy 90 in Biloxi. There's that fast water rise they've all talked about. Expand Winds are increasing there. Zeta is packing a punch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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