Tropical Storm Isaac

NOAA/NHC ^ | 22 August 2012 | NOAA/NHC

[Elle Bee]

Karl Rove is tinkering with the hurricane machine again. A storm band dissipated completely immediately prior to Tampa Bay approach.

Rush shared your humor in his first hour.

He found suspicious the delay in reporting the change in spaghetti tracks until the convention was canceled and now that many tracks have the storm hitting west of New Orleans, NOAA still has it as center mass

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[dfwgator]

The irony would be if another “Isaac’s Storm” hits Galveston.

[DaveInDallas]

No kidding. I don’t think they ever fully recovered from the last one (although they did it much better than NO, LA).

[Black Agnes]

If only those evil republicans weren’t talking about budget cuts. If *only* the NHC and NOAA had bigger budgets these uncertainties wouldn’t happen!

The pubbies can’t win this one. We are all hostage to government ‘science’.

[dfwgator]

If not for that hurricane, there’s a good chance that Galveston, and not Houston, would have been one of our most populated metro areas in the country.

[alancarp]

Well, I found the 7am European model forecast... it is coming back to the NHC track. By its reckoning, Issac will be a 976-980mb storm as it hits the mainland directly between New Orleans and Gulfport... but could take 24 hours to get from the outskirts of the delta region to the next 100 miles north. That would be ugly... even if it's "only" a 90mph storm.

[Elle Bee]

we see government science everytime one of these threads begin

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[alancarp]

Buoy 42003 caught a pressure level of 29.15 inches (I'm not sure if that converts to 984 or 987 mb) when the eye passed over it ~2 hours ago.

Peak wind gust reported was only 44.7 knots, but I can't tell how they measure these gusts, given that data is only sampled once an hour. The water temperature, however, was 85 degrees.

[alancarp]

Bastardi just tweeted that new recon data indicates that Issac will likely be upgraded to ‘hurricane’ at the next report.

[alancarp]

Yup: 64 knots on that recon run ("The maximum surface wind observed during the inbound leg associated with this fix."). That's 73.6 mph. We got us a hurricane.

[Eye of Unk]

Shep Smith is in NOLA right now being the harbinger of doom and gloom, that Isaac will hit NOLA dead square.

[Black Agnes]

Have to disagree with that. Sorry. I see government *data*.

The science begins when humans interpret that data. I did government science for a while. It’s VERY political. VERY. And no matter how big the budget it’s NEVER enough.

If government science was uniformly accurate we’d all be dead from swine flu. After having most of us drowned from global warming related flooding.

Government ‘science’ has resulted in most rural weather stations being removed from the temperature calculations used to determine ‘warming’. Those located at airports and areas that have increasingly become suburban in the past 30 year? *Those* data points are golden, you understand. No agenda. None. Don’t you dare even think those heretical thoughts!

www.wattsupwiththat.com is a great site for discussions involving government weather ‘science’ and government data alike.

[dfwgator]

Here’s the History Channel Documentary based on “Isaac’s Storm”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uz2GvDJHMg

One of the best documentaries I ever watched. The story of the orphanage will break your heart.

[girlscout]

The irony would be if another “Isaac’s Storm” hits Galveston.

Bite your tongue! :) We don't want Isaac here. It sounds too much like Ike.

[penelopesire]

You all know way more than me, but this storm looks pretty ragged to me. It certainly is no Katrina. It doesn’t even look that big, etc.

I know NOLA needs to beware f the flooding rains but this tropical storm seems to be being hyped to the max.

[brytlea]

Have been overwhelmed with this rain, has there been any damage?

[NautiNurse]

Isaac getting stronger...

Max sustained winds 70mph, 981mb
255 mi SE of the mouth of the Mississippi River
320 mi SSE of Mobile AL
Moving NW at 12mph

On/Off Hurricane List Mash Here-->

[CedarDave]

Have been overwhelmed with this rain, has there been any damage?

Wrong person to ask! Out here in the SW NM oil patch, would do anything for a decent rain -- Maybe even hire some Native American dancers!

[onyx]

Thanks very much, NautiNurse!

DrO bought our supply of 8 hour candles today. We had everything else in the storage room and kitchen pantry.

[penelopesire]

Be safe. Hopefully it will not get too bad...just lots of rain. Right now the radar pics are really not showing that much rain in the bands headed into La. And Ms. Very strange storm. Lots of green but very little red and yellow headed that way so far. It seems the storm is baffling some of the weather folks too from what I am reading in weather chat blogs(although I don’t understand half of what they say...lol)