Hurricane Zeta

NOAA/NHC ^ | 25 October 2020 | NOAA/NHC

[Jess Kitting]

Interesting.

no X, Y, or Z names

How about Xavier, Yolanda, and Zeno?

How alphabet-ist of them!

Growing up with a name like Zyzzyx, I was always called last. Last in line for cupcakes, last to be chosen for the sports teams . . . Poor me. Such a victim of Anglo-supremacy.

[NautiNurse]

500 PM CDT Update
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About 35 MI SSW of New Orleans LA
Max Sustained Winds...110 MPH
Moving...NNE at 24 MPH
Minimum Pressure...972 MB

[Jess Kitting]

There are more several Greek alphabet letters, including Eta, Theta, Iota.

That's crazy. If they're going to come to this country, hurricanes should learn to speak English!

[eastforker]

So if the forward speed is 24mph and the storm is 110, does that mean it would have the force of 134 mph?

[abb]

Getting dark here. Winds picked up a little, but nowhere near TS force. Water level up a little, maybe a foot or so. Plenty of surf, someone was out on a kiteboard a while ago.

[tet68]

I was going to pledge Eta Bita Pi but couldn’t make the cut.
They said I was too square.

[NautiNurse]

On the dirty side, it is definitely possible. Incidentally, the strongest winds were found on the east side of the storm earlier today.

[NautiNurse]

New Orleans is getting smacked hard at this hour.

[NautiNurse]

600 PM CDT Update
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About 10 MI SSW of New Orleans LA
Max Sustained Winds...105 MPH
Moving...NNE at 25 MPH
Minimum Pressure...973 MB

[NautiNurse]

100,000+ without power as Hurricane Zeta races through southeast Louisiana Source: nola.com

[jeffers]

Yes but...

The storm is moving NNE, and the highest wind speeds are on the NE side.

When you face the wind, with a low pressure system, the center of circulation lies over your right shoulder. The winds in the NE,quadrant are basically out of the east.

The NNE movement of this storm most increases winds moving in the same direction, which are on the SE and S side of the storm, and which are not the highest speed winds in the storm.

[NautiNurse]

Lake Ponchartrain

[jeffers]

A real key to Lake P. surge levels will be the Empire-Buras Peninsula, and how much surge gets around the SE end of it.

Once it gets around the tip, wind direction over time, and shore geometry, conspire to “herd” surge up the coast, and then into Lake P., where the final insult is delivered by the tail end of the storm, northerly winds that drive it all down south against the Lakeview levees.

Ivor Von H’s Adcirc software pointed this up in 2005 and it still applies today.

With this strike, I don’t see much surge making it east around the peninsula, but... there’s going to be a... second wave... generated fresh...on the far side. Hopefully here, the wicked forward speed of the storm works in our favor and doesn’t allow much new surge to accumulate.

[blam]

Starting to get some pretty good gusts of wind here now...also, lost my Dish satellite service.

[SE Mom]

Dang, that’s nasty on the lake.

Thank you for being so faithful every storm, every year.

[jeffers]

You two are both pretty solid in the pocket, year in, year out.

I have to wonder how much of that is... “hurricane chocolate?”

:-)

[SE Mom]

Hah! You shouldn’t have to wonder;)

Good to see you.

[NautiNurse]

More than 300,000+ without power as Hurricane Zeta races through southeast Louisiana

[NautiNurse]

Hang in there! Check in when you are able.

Weird about the satellite service. Got rid of it here because it would lose signal from t-storms everyday summer afternoon/evening. Two hurricanes--never dropped the signal.

[NautiNurse]

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