[NautiNurse]

Extremely Dangerous Hurricane Laura Closing In On the NW Gulf Coast...

...Catastrophic Storm Surge, Extreme Winds, and Flash Flooding
Expected Along the NW Gulf Coast Tonight & Early Thursday...

1100 PM EDT Update

Location...About 75 MI S of Lake Charles LA
...About 75 MI SE of Port Arthur TX
Max Sustained Winds...150 MPH
Moving...NNW at 15 MPH
Minimum Pressure...939 MB

Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 60 miles from the center
and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 205 miles

On/Off Hurricane List Mash Here-->

[MplsSteve]

Oh, Jim Cantore just took over the night shift on the Weather Channel.

[Viking2002]

Lordy, I checked the zone forecasts for the area around the projected landfall area and they were saying the heat indices could reach 100 degrees. I find that almost impossible, given my college coursework and NWS spotter training in meteorology. I can't even wrap my head around the thermo, atmospheric, and hydrodynamics of what it would take to support the two conditions simultaneously. Can you imagine a triple digit heat index and 110 MPH+ sustained winds? It would be like being thrown into a convection oven. It truly is unsurvivable conditions if you stay.