Winds are now too high and variable for any aircraft takeoff or landing operations.
Anything still at the NO airport when this hits is going to be trashed, but you can't get them off the ground in this stuff.
METAR KMSY 282053Z 06016G23KT 7SM BKN038 BKN047 32/24 A2961
Translation: At 2053Z (4:53 pm EDT), Louis Armstrong International had winds out of 060 degrees (ENE) at 16 knots gusting 23, visibility 7 miles, ceiling broken 3800 feet, broken 2700 feet, temperature 32C, dewpoint 24C, barometric pressure 29.61. That's flyable...or it was as of an hour ago. The window's basically closed, because in a couple hours, it *won't* be flyable.
}:-)4
How safe is the SuperDome? Can it really stand a Cat-5, and if it cannot hasn't it just become a deathtrap?