Hurricane Zeta

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

[NautiNurse]

Thank you for your kind thoughts. Much appreciated.

Pretty sure my local meteorologist said the season is not over. There may be another storm on the horizon. I tuned him out before hearing details. Nothing shows on the 5 day forecast.

[Viking2002]

I hope that does not dissuade the home improvement folks from coming and refacing my garage and rebuilding my fireplace chimney this week. I will have a fire in my living room come the holidays this year. Hey, Karl Rove never handed me the keys to his Weather Machine, it's not my doing........

[NautiNurse]

A Hurricane Warning has been issued from Morgan City LA,
to the MS/AL border, including Lake Pontchartrain,
Lake Maurepas, and metropolitan New Orleans.

A Tropical Storm Warning has been issued from the MS/AL
border to the Okaloosa/Walton County Line, FL.

400 AM CDT Update
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About 85 MI ESE of Progreso Mexic
About 560 MI S of the mouth of the Mississippi River
Max Sustained Winds...70 MPH
Moving...NW at 14 MPH
Minimum Pressure...984 MB

Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 140 miles.

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[rodguy911]

Good question!

[rodguy911]

I think its 11 feet.

[rodguy911]

thanks ill check it got a link?

[rodguy911]

If the track stays the same,which is rare, looks like Fla.and Ala. will get more of the storm than LA. Tracks move however.

[rodguy911]

Hey I saw her first.....

[NautiNurse]

NHC will not retire Greek alphabet storm names. A significantly destructive storm would be known by name and year (e.g. Zeta 2020).

[NautiNurse]

We'll know more when Zeta emerges from the Yucatan Peninsula.

Given Zeta's acceleration before landfall, strong winds are likely to spread well inland along northern Gulf coast Wednesday night.

[Alas Babylon!]

According to my personal weather station, here in Tallassee I’ve gotten 108 inches of rain since 1 Jan 2020.

That’s 9 feet of rain.

A lot better than last year. I prayed for rain then. I won’t mess with the weather again, promise!

[Rebelbase]

I’m in the Southern Blue Ridge around 2000’ elevation. Local NOAA has the Thursday forecast as wind gusts up to 28 mph.

Given the forward speed of the storm based on the estimated travel time for Tropical Storm Force Winds at reply #55, I think 28 mph is underestimated.

Going to prep today for power loss.

[blam]

"That’s 9 feet of rain. "

That's amazing.

I remember being surprised to learn that Mobile (The Rainest City In The USA) has a normal rainfall of five feet a year. Until....I read about a place in Bangladesh that normally gets fifty feet a year.

[Alas Babylon!]

I’ll bet Mobile got 12 feet of rain this year at least.

A very wet year for the entire Gulf. Can’t speak for Western Texas or East Florida, but from Corpus Christi to Texarkana, though Apalachicola to Macon, Georgia, we’ve been drenched.

[Alas Babylon!]

Well, my pecans are starting to drop and I’ve been picking them up before the critters get them. I’ve gotten two five gallon buckets full now.

These winds will knock em all down, so I better get busy this weekend!

[Red Badger]

They could use the RUSSIAN alphabet!................

[M Kehoe]

Poor LA.

Sheesh, just like my/our AO in 2005.

May the Lord help the northern Gulf coast to recover quickly. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.

5.56mm

[NautiNurse]

Amen.

[fwdude]

Man, poor Louisiana. Getting hit again.

Coastal Mississippi/Alabama, too. They’ve been on the dirty side of every one of these storms.

[NautiNurse]

400 PM CDT Update
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About 450 MI S of the mouth of the Mississippi River
Max Sustained Winds...65 MPH
Moving...NW at 14 MPH
Minimum Pressure...984 MB

Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 140 miles.