Posted on 08/28/2012 9:24:55 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Isaac has been slow to organize and attain hurricane status. Slow moving minimal Hurricane Isaac threatens to dump up to 20" of rain in portions of its path. Storm surge of 6-12ft is expected.
Media news readers have gleefully reported RNC scheduling adjustments to accommodate public safety during Tampa storm warnings.
A water spout formed in the Tampa Channelside area at 4:43PM Monday afternoon, a short distance from the RNC Convention Center. The Florida Atlantic coast was inundated with torrential rain squalls from far-reaching Isaac outer bands. Several tornados were reported in the Florida peninsula.
The weather took its toll on protester turnout at the GOP convention. Cara Jennings, a community organizer from Palm Beach County, braved the elements dressed as a sparkling pink vagina, along with several dozen other protesters.
GOP governors of Gulf Coast states announced they would remain at their posts, rather than attend the Tampa convention. British Petroleum reported eight oil rigs and 39 production platforms were evacuated late Sunday. By mid-day Monday, personnel had been evacuated from 346 offshore gas and oil platforms, representing 58 percent of the 596 manned platforms in the Gulf of Mexico.
As Isaac ultimately takes aim at the Gulf of Mexico coastline, news outlets wistfully reminisce about the 7th anniversary since Hurricane Katrina, huge television ratings, and once again omit a state named Mississippi in their storm coverage. One thing is certain--news coverage is much more predictable than Hurricane Isaac.
Sea Surface Temps
Buoy Data:
Western Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana/Mississippi Coastal Region
Florida
Radar:
Mobile,AL
New Orleans/Baton Rouge, LA
Lake Charles, LA
Northwest FL
Tampa Bay
May nothing disturb your rest.
May nothing disturb your rest.
Night friend. ty for your thoughts and prayers. You stay safe and sleep well.
that would kind of sound fun to watch. lol
His sister Mary Landrue gave us government healthcare which will ruin our healthcare and turn the U.S.A toward socialism.
Yeah, I’ve heard about that family’s corruption.
but then again, I’ve heard about much of New Orleans and Louisiana is full of corruption.
I swear I heard Bob Breck blame the storm for not intensifying rapidly because of tar balls form the Horizon oil spill.
Wind’s out of the east from about Gulfport west, getting a little bit of northerly component further east...that’ll start water blowing ashore in eastern coastal Miss., Lake P is filling now.
Once the wind starts blowing north, and as long afterwards as it keeps on doing so, surge is going to pile up onshore and the wind won’t let it retreat till....well till Isaac is gone, in this strike geometry.
This isn’t Katrina, it won’t come ashore all at once. If there’s a bright side to it, folks in coastal Miss. might have time to wade out instead of swimming.
Huh? I wasn't listening to him closely/attentively throughout his broadcasts. Seriously? I only heard him blaming this on the dry air being sucked in from the trough north of N.O. area, even while it was in the middle of the gulf. (Which, of course, he insisted was good, because otherwise, it would have been a much worse hurricane system.)
High tide 10am Gulfport, 11:09am Waveland.
Damn, sounds like you done got hold of some clear liquid in a jug from the Mississippi hill folks :^)
No doubt, but a rough rule of thumb if you don’t have a supercomp and modelling software, puts max surge half an eye diameter west of center eye landfall, and 2.5 to 3 eye diameters east of landfall. This doesn’t have the central low pressure, or windspeed Katrina had, though reach is on a similar order of magnitude. If there’s to be a historical or even noteworthy surge event out of this storm, it will come from the longevity of the onshore windflow.
The Bamm model has it looping hard west, then around and making seafall at the Al/Fl border. I usually trust the composite track within 24 hours of landfall, but I’m not seeing center of circulation ashore yet, and there’s pretty good divergence on the models as to when that will happen.
Zoomed in, looping slow, cc is stationary or just a fuzz of WNW to it.
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