ATL: ISAAC - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[Nederlander]

I love this loop... looks beautiful

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~rabin/goes14/loop_srso.html

[Javlin]

Will be interesting to see if the eye feature starts to transition toward a more westerly direction like some of the models have shown.

I do not think it will and my reasoning is frictional land mass interaction.I saw Dennis do the same thing back years ago and bumped off the boot of LA to get locked up in Mobile Bay and died there.A stronger steering currents and push yes I could see it get pushed W but Isaac is what 12 hours from his last place of landfall.Now when Isaac gets by Lake Pontchatrain could he get kick W with a nudge could happen? or he does another kick right?

[GCANE]

Satellite Loop

Boom.

Wow, boom indeed.

That hot tower is going to the stratosphere.

They'll write this up on the TRMM and CIMSS blogs for sure.

[Puddinhead]

Is it just me or is this thing moving north?

Local NOLA met on TV just made that same observation (very gloomily) about ten minutes ago.

[TheDreamTraveler]

We're lucky the winds haven't caught up to the pressure yet. Otherwise we'd be dealing with one strong hurricane here. A pressure this low rivals a high end category 2 or low category 3 hurricane. And it STILL continues to explode and strengthen according to satellite.

[tolakram]

long radar loop, saved

[Aric Dunn]

Well I made it as far south as 5 miles past the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans. there is a reporting station ... station id KNBG so you can what general winds im getting.

[WeatherGuesser]

Latest.

(satellite image)

Looking like it moved west?

Why do you keep pushing the west bit? There has not been any west motion for the last several hours, maybe not today at all, yet you continue to ask if it's going west? I don't understand why.

[Texashawk]

Satellite Loop

Boom.

Wow, boom indeed.

Can you imagine if this thing had just one more day over the Gulf?

[BigEasy]

Satellite Loop

Boom.

That is an incredible satellite image. It looks like they dropped a nuclear bomb right smack in the middle of Isaac.

[Aric Dunn]

So far the station is reporting 43 gust but there have been numerous well into the 50s some other stations around me are reporting sustained at 51. deteriorating conditions !

[tolakram]

KNBG



http://www.wunderground.com/history/air ... story.html

[WeatherGuesser]

Do we have landfall or not?

[tolakram]

Do we have landfall or not?

No, not until the center of that circulation is inland. Since it's moving NW or NNW it would be above the Delta, left side, I assume.

[LSU2001]

Not yet

[rainstorm]

definitely looks like a west turn

[monicaei]

Do we have landfall or not?

Define "land" . Looks like southwest pass on the radar loop. That's not really land, with or with out a storm in the gulf

[Javlin]

The Back Bay sits N of my house here in Biloxi and it was FULL! I am thinking maybe 5' higher not a pier was visible and water was 2-3' up the trunks of some trees quite a site wind was maybe 20-25 steady? on the bridge.

[Puddinhead]

Weather Channel showing for my zip code sustained tropical storm force winds of 43, with gusts to 58.

[tolakram]

definitely looks like a west turn

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I am really not seeing any west turn. I estimate landfall somewhere east of Houma and west of the delta, wherever they decide land is.