Hurricane season's not over yet

Of course, if you read the comments at Jeff Masters' blog, you'll find the consensus is that Ida will be the next Paloma, explode in the Western Carribean and definitely make landfall as at LEAST a Cat 2 hurricane in New Orleans or Tampa.

NHC has it becoming extratropical west of Tampa -- you don't see storms go extratropical in the GOMEX often, but it IS November, and there's supposed to be that front there.

 

I've seen a projection in which the storm runs into a cold front mid-Gulf early next week and just shatters.

 

We've got a hurricane. And one that is wild in the strike zone.



I imagine WWL-AM will be going to hurricane mode shortly if they aren't already.

 

That's fine.

If a cold front is hitting it and doing the great shear thing that they do, it's just an ultra-wet rainstorm.

No biggie.

 

That red track's gotta be worrying for anyone in Georgia -- they hardly need any more rain.

 

And now New Orleans is under a hurricane watch. Didn't quite see that one coming

 

Based on what the Weather Channel is saying this morning, it looks like that cold front's dropped some speed and will allow the storm to reach the Redneck Riviera.

Hurricane watch has been issued from Grand Isle, La., to the Mississippi-Alabama border. Weirdly, the statement from the National Hurricane Center specifically exempts New Orleans from the hurricane watch. ???

 

I think that's because the storm isn't expected to hit land around there, and that there might be hurricane winds right on the coast as the hurricane/tropical storm/extratropical storm hangs a hard right. Who knows?

The More You Know: Only four canes have struck the U.S. -- all Cat 1, all in Florida, only one on the northern Gulf coast and only one since the NHC started naming storms (the answer to the last two points: Hurricane Kate in the mid 80's

 

When is this thing supposed to make landfall?

 

0700 ET Tuesday.

 

Thank you.

 

Because the Panthers are a force field of suck.