Prospero

Some decent wind and surge footage:

Winds are increasing there. Zeta is packing a punch.

Tornado?

We might get a week or two before the next LA hurricane...

How a drive across the Pontchartrain Causeway?

Few minutes ago:

And I'll get to sleep at a reasonable hour tonight...

Seems like a treat for it to be still daylight during landfall. One of the better storms to watch this season.

At least the rain is not much of a factor.

10:37 pm https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/noaatidepredictions.html?id=8761724&legacy=1 The wind has shifted in the past 30 minutes or so. It was coming almost in straight in but now from the right. I do not know the direction of the cam. The water has gone down quite a bit. https://irgir.click2stream.com/

Lot of erosion already. The landscape is changing quickly in front of this cam... EDIT: It is low tide right now, and whew, it is rising fast.

Grand Ilse cam is impressive with waves now over the dunes. A big difference from an hour ago. https://irgir.click2stream.com/

Could be the location of the radar not giving a full picture.

Watching the webcam posted earlier on Grand Ilse. The waves are starting to crash over the dunes and water is rising quickly. https://irgir.click2stream.com/

Not sure why "Capital One Building" keeps popping into my mind...

Looks like LA Offshore Oil Port just went offline. I think most in the area have dropped in last 30 minutes or so. 36.1 ft wave height. Whew, wonder how that will translate with any storm surge.

I think Irma was the first Tropical Storm Warning. Edit: "Breaking News: Hundreds of Storm Chasers descend on Atlanta to film Tropical Storm Zeta approach Atlanta!" Party!!!

Cancun with 60 mph winds and a 71 mph gust (84/106 with Delta). That is enough to cause problems in Florida for sure.

Sitting here in Gulfport, Florida right now we are enjoying a very warm (frog strangler) strong thunderstorm that came in from the south in very late October. Usually this time of year it is dry as a bone and the only rain we might be lucky to get is from cold fronts that come through from the north. It has been muggy as heck this week, even taking showers outside to cool off as it has been so hot. Not a typical year at all, but it IS 2020... What will the next few weeks bring??

Just going on the elongated minimal pressure obs from recon and their veer to the center point of that CDO feature. At any rate, it's looking like Zeta is going to run out of ocean surface before it can go bonkers, which is a good thing. Landfall south of Delta and a lot weaker, which means more time over the Yucatan before moving back over warm waters? (May not be adding anything to a met discussion, but there are a lot of us who check out this forum and love the technical met secret codes who are here for the sake of being with like minds.) TS conditions in Cancun, but hopefully not too much more. Still a storm to watch for we who are totally obsessed...

Where can I find a path history to see any zigs and zags. My storm follower amateur eyes have thought I've seen some, but so far do not have path history in my small bucket of visual tools to look at.

Delta passed over quickly. If it's eye and structure held together the end game would have been much worse. Granted almost a month ago, the Gulf has cooled a bit.

Some nice patterns coming from the center of the convection:

No radar, but we do have a few anemometers to watch. Kind of makes me want to fly into Cancun and rent a car to drive around in the approaching storm...