NOAA Forecasts Stormy and Intense 2020 Hurricane Season

[politicallefty]

This thing intensified very rapidly. It's up to 140 mph, a strong Cat 4 now. I wouldn't be surprised if it hit Cat 5 now, not that it much matters. Anyone in the path better on the way out now.

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at3.shtml?start#contents

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/262342.shtml?

Laura has 150 miles per hour winds, and easily could be a Category 5 at landfall.

Storm surge is forecast to be twenty feet high at the location of landfall.

This scenario seems reminiscent of Hurricane Michael, just several hundred miles to the West.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

I think that the NHC is going to report 155 MPH winds but that it will be changed to a Cat 5 in the post-season analysis like with Michael a few years ago.  Regardless, this isn't a good situation to say the least.

[NewYorkExpress]

I think that the NHC is going to report 155 MPH winds but that it will be changed to a Cat 5 in the post-season analysis like with Michael a few years ago.  Regardless, this isn't a good situation to say the least.

That does seem like the most likely scenario.

Do we have any posters (current or former) who live over there?

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/270253.shtml?

Hurricane Laura is just 75 miles away from Lake Charles/Port Arthur.

Winds still at 150 MPH, and the pressure is holding steady. It's still at 939 MB.

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT3+shtml/270354.shtml?

Laura just 60 miles from Lake Charles.

Winds remain 150 Miles Per Hour.

Pressure dropped another Millibar, down to 938 Millibars. It's still strengthening.

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT3+shtml/270456.shtml?

Hurricane Laura's Eyewall has reached the Southwest Louisiana coast.

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/270558.shtml?

Hurricane Laura has made landfall as a Category 4 storm with 150 MPH winds near Cameron Louisiana.

[PSOL]

Might as well make this considering the scope of the devastation

Laura victims may go weeks without power; deaths climb to 11

Hundreds of thousands of people across Louisiana were still without power or water Friday, a day after Laura sawed a devastating path through the state, killing at least 11 people, and officials warned that basic services could be knocked out for weeks or longer along parts of the Gulf Coast.

The death toll rose after authorities reported that a Texas man was killed when the Category 4 hurricane sent a tree crashing into his home near the Louisiana border. Four other people, all in the same residence, died from carbon monoxide poisoning from a generator. Six deaths were reported Thursday in Louisiana, where the outlook was grim for thousands of evacuated residents eager to return.

“We need help,” said Lawrence “Lee” Faulk, 57, who returned to a home with no roof in hard-hit Cameron Parish, which was littered with downed power lines. “We need ice, water, blue tarps — everything that you would associate with the storm, we need it. Like two hours ago.”

[jaymichaud]

Stay safe, Texas and Louisiana users

[DINGO Joe]

Stay safe, Texas and Louisiana users

Don't think we have any posters in that part of LA/TX

[ProudModerate2]

Any Atlas users in the area ... stay safe and hope all is well.

[Storr]

Stay safe, Texas and Louisiana users

Don't think we have any posters in that part of LA/TX

The only saving grace about where the Hurricane made landfall is that it isn't a very populated part of the Gulf Coast (unlike New Orleans, Houston, the Redneck Rivera, etc.)

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

There are waves in the tropics heading towards FL, Bermuda and NC, so it's not over, due to the angle it's coming across the Atlantic. The wind switches directions in Sept to a NW track than a Western track

[DINGO Joe]

From what I've seen, the wind damage was very high end for a hurricane, not Andrew level but close.  Water damage from the surge was somewhat minimal because the storm hit a Parish with only 7,000 people (and had 10,000 before Rita 15 years ago).  Many people will be living in hotels for awhile. Of course, there are plenty of rooms available right now.

[GeorgiaModerate]

https://twitter.com/capitalweather/status/1299099405287555072

[NewYorkExpress]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/040002.shtml?gm_track#contents

Tropical Storm Sally approaching the Louisiana Coast, and is projected to make landfall as a hurricane, and dump over twenty inches of rain at the coast.

Everyone from roughly the Alabama/Mississippi line to to Morgan City, Louisiana is under a Hurricane Watch or Warning. This, I believe includes New Orleans.

Any posters in this area should take extreme caution, especially if you are in New Orleans.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/040002.shtml?gm_track#contents

Tropical Storm Sally approaching the Louisiana Coast, and is projected to make landfall as a hurricane, and dump over twenty inches of rain at the coast.

Everyone from roughly the Alabama/Mississippi line to to Morgan City, Louisiana is under a Hurricane Watch or Warning. This, I believe includes New Orleans.

Any posters in this area should take extreme caution, especially if you are in New Orleans.

While people in New Orleans need to be cautious, if Sally continues on its projected path, they aren't the ones who need to be most worried.  It's the people on the right hand side of the path who face the worst of a hurricane. So it's the people on the Mississippi and Alabama coasts who are currently the ones facing the greatest danger, not the people of New Orleans.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

And we've gone Greek

[NewYorkExpress]

And we've gone Greek

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at4.shtml?start#contents

And it's in the process of making landfall in Portugal of all places.

[NewYorkExpress]

https://weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/2020-09-18-tropical-storm-hurricane-beta-gulf-of-mexico-texas

And then we have Tropical Storm Beta.

And the scary thing is, there's still almost two months left in the season.

We could end up at least halfway through the Greek Alphabet.

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

Is there even protocol if god forbid we managed to get all the way through the greek alphabet? Wouldn't be out of character for this year. We're definitely getting a record for the number of named storms, but how many will we get?

[GM Team Member and Senator WB]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/040002.shtml?gm_track#contents

Tropical Storm Sally approaching the Louisiana Coast, and is projected to make landfall as a hurricane, and dump over twenty inches of rain at the coast.

Everyone from roughly the Alabama/Mississippi line to to Morgan City, Louisiana is under a Hurricane Watch or Warning. This, I believe includes New Orleans.

Any posters in this area should take extreme caution, especially if you are in New Orleans.

While people in New Orleans need to be cautious, if Sally continues on its projected path, they aren't the ones who need to be most worried.  It's the people on the right hand side of the path who face the worst of a hurricane. So it's the people on the Mississippi and Alabama coasts who are currently the ones facing the greatest danger, not the people of New Orleans.

And despite that my area in West Mobile saw next to nothing. A tree branch fell and smashed someone's windshield in the parking lot but uh.. that's about it.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at4+shtml/040002.shtml?gm_track#contents

Tropical Storm Sally approaching the Louisiana Coast, and is projected to make landfall as a hurricane, and dump over twenty inches of rain at the coast.

Everyone from roughly the Alabama/Mississippi line to to Morgan City, Louisiana is under a Hurricane Watch or Warning. This, I believe includes New Orleans.

Any posters in this area should take extreme caution, especially if you are in New Orleans.

While people in New Orleans need to be cautious, if Sally continues on its projected path, they aren't the ones who need to be most worried.  It's the people on the right hand side of the path who face the worst of a hurricane. So it's the people on the Mississippi and Alabama coasts who are currently the ones facing the greatest danger, not the people of New Orleans.

And despite that my area in West Mobile saw next to nothing. A tree branch fell and smashed someone's windshield in the parking lot but uh.. that's about it.

West Mobile isn't on the coast.  You only had to worry about wind damage, not storm surge which is the most dangerous part of a storm.

[NewYorkExpress]

Is there even protocol if god forbid we managed to get all the way through the greek alphabet? Wouldn't be out of character for this year. We're definitely getting a record for the number of named storms, but how many will we get?

There doesn't appear to be any protocol for running out of names in the Greek Alphabet.