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Just now, 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.

NOLA is in the middle of the eye but there is no real back half.

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10 minutes ago, 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

It got stronger. 

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44 minutes ago, 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.

 

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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.

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9 minutes ago, 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.

I know, just being a smartass. ;)

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1 hour ago, eyewall said:

Apparently media states a 108 mph gust reported in NOLA.

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+)?

 

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