etudiant Posted October 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, eyewall said: I am going to guess the hurricane. You're surely right, but the images until they went dead were of a garden variety thunderstorm, nothing massive or damaging. The potted plants along the balconies were doing fine and the barricades in front of construction were not moving. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
psv88 Posted October 28, 2020 112+ winds Across a metro area where nobody left is bad. Once winds hit 120 you get major structural damage 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eyewall Posted October 28, 2020 3 minutes ago, etudiant said: You're surely right, but the images until they went dead were of a garden variety thunderstorm, nothing massive or damaging. The potted plants along the balconies were doing fine and the barricades in front of construction were not moving. I am thinking that spot was heavily sheltered. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
etudiant Posted October 28, 2020 4 minutes ago, eyewall said: I am thinking that spot was heavily sheltered. 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jm1220 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eyewall Posted October 28, 2020 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dan11295 Posted October 28, 2020 West side of N.O. will probably have minimal damage due to asymmetric nature of Zeta. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NavarreDon Posted October 28, 2020 Found this little gem while checking our weather.. 2 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BombsAway1288 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Windspeed Posted October 28, 2020 Crazy amount of couplets with this hurricane. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nibor Posted October 28, 2020 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. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MN Transplant Posted October 28, 2020 Gust to 71 on the left side at MSY. Not shabby. 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prospero Posted October 28, 2020 How a drive across the Pontchartrain Causeway? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
etudiant Posted October 28, 2020 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. MU 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sickman Posted October 28, 2020 The setup is reminiscent of Chariey, taking advantage of the trough position accelerating the outflow. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Prospero Posted October 28, 2020 We might get a week or two before the next LA hurricane... 1 2 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gymengineer Posted October 28, 2020 11 minutes ago, MN Transplant said: Gust to 71 on the left side at MSY. Not shabby. And FOX8 just recorded 90 mph on the rainless back side. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Wild Weather Monger Posted October 28, 2020 5 minutes ago, Prospero said: We might get a week or two before the next LA hurricane... Why not? There is a patch of untouched water in the Bay of Campeche. 1 3 2 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
qg_omega Posted October 29, 2020 44 minutes ago, eyewall said: NOLA is in the middle of the eye but there is no real back half. Weather channel showed a drone flying during the eye, power on and downtown looked fine, the high winds were very short duration Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dan11295 Posted October 29, 2020 12 minutes ago, 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 Short duration will limit damage in New Orleans proper for sure. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shaggy Posted October 29, 2020 Big flare up over the eastern core as it moves inland Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BombsAway1288 Posted October 29, 2020 37 minutes ago, Nibor said: It got stronger. 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
the ghost of leroy Posted October 29, 2020 Best storm of the season. This one is a ripper. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Calderon Posted October 29, 2020 Power just failed for much of Biloxi on the peninsula. 1 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LibertyBell Posted October 29, 2020 1 hour ago, andyhb said: These are some big gusts coming out of where it made landfall. Also reports of significant structural damage in the area. the 125-136 measurements for gusts are similar to what was reported for Laura out in SW Louisiana. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Calderon 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 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
