Pressure is up a MB in the latest Vortex Data Message....
I am REALLY hoping for some kind of eyewall replacement cycle. Anything to get the storm to weaken.
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/MIAREPNT2.shtml?
Go millibars! Up--that is.
"Anything to get the storm to weaken."
People keep commenting on how huge the eye is, when in actuality, a large eye is indicative of weakening. It's the tight eyewalls that are the really bad ones, counterintuitive though that may seem.
The wildcard here is that New Orleans is so subject to widespread flooding that will remain long after the storm is gone. Beyond that obviously problematic difference, I really think the town will fare OK, just as many a city in FL has, just as Charleston, SC did, and will be back to a semblance of normality in a year's time, just as the aforementioned were.
People just love a good scary story, and there's a lot of that going on, here, and particularly with the news media, who stand to gain ratings by exaggerating the threat, IMHO.
Amen! Anything to weaken this!I have such fear for the people caught in this hurricane and the flooding..