ATL: LAURA - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[sweetpea]

Reed Timmer is live on FB right now, driving through Lake Charles.

https://www.facebook.com/reedtimmer2.0/ ... 4490361335

Please delete if not allowed to post this.

Is he going to be live again?

Yes he had to go to the bathroom. LOL

[PandaCitrus]

Looking at the radar the western edge of the eye is 3 miles east of Lake Charles and the center 15 miles east of Lake Charles if you draw a line 360 degrees due north. So if there is any remaining westerly component to the track in the next 9 hours, Lake Charles will get the direct hit it looks like.

[dexterlabio]

With a pandemic still ongoing it surely is a very bad time evacuating from a Category 4 (possibly a Cat5) cyclone. The stress from taking shelter is one, but making sure not to catch the disease is another.

[MississippiWx]

The signs that this could happen were obvious for several days, yet it’s still awe-inspiring. We saw this last year with Dorian and the year before with Michael, and I still can’t wrap my brain around the absolute power of nature.

I lived through Katrina. Many of you lived through Ivan, Michael, Harvey, Andrew, etc. These people in SW Louisiana have no idea what they are about to experience, and it’s heartbreaking. All of this on top of a pandemic.

God help them.

[Hypercane_Kyle]

Reed Timmer is live on FB right now, driving through Lake Charles.

https://www.facebook.com/reedtimmer2.0/ ... 4490361335

Please delete if not allowed to post this.

Is he going to be live again?

Yes he had to go to the bathroom. LOL

His stream and Jeff Piotrowski's are going to be nuts tonight.

[us89]

Nearly tied with Dorian in terms of eye temp. Also only .09*C shy of the 90*C threshold most cat 5's experience per ADT.

2020AUG27 002020 6.4 929.0 124.6 6.4 6.5 6.5 NO LIMIT OFF OFF OFF OFF 21.21 -68.70 EYE 26 IR 69.2 28.60 93.00 ARCHER GOES16 38.7

Are you talking about cloud top temps? You mean -90C?

Think he's talking about the difference between the eye temp and cloud top temps, which calculates out to 89.91C.

[toad strangler]

 https://twitter.com/AndyHazelton/status/1298785964823896066

[mrbagyo]

It's now very close to my lowest pressure guess if 932 to 936 (from talking tropics) - and who knows? Laura could even go deeper

[aspen]

dropping 3 mb/hr

https://i.imgur.com/Ov0Iyak.png

https://i.imgur.com/sRuWH3v.png

This could get very close to Michael’s minimum pressure before landfall.

[northjaxpro]

Eyewall lightning is increasing

For me, the sure indicator of an.intensifying cyclone.

[MississippiWx]

Eyewall lightning is increasing

For me, the sure indicator of an.intensifying cyclone.

It has had lightning in the eye wall non-stop today and it hasn’t stopped strengthening!

[sweetpea]

Is he going to be live again?

Yes he had to go to the bathroom. LOL

His stream and Jeff Piotrowski's are going to be nuts tonight.

I have them both up.

[wkwally]

Is he going to be live again?

Yes he had to go to the bathroom. LOL

His stream and Jeff Piotrowski's are going to be nuts tonight.

does anyone have a link to Jeff's stream

[chaser1]

It really just looks like a matter of when, not if, recon verifies 160 mph winds. I'm truly at a loss for words.

I'm afraid you're right

[Texashawk]

So I want to ask a serious question. Practically everyone on the board and many of the models showed this happening or something similar. Virtually every RI indicator was flashing green, and it was widely accepted that Laura had a golden runway to landfall. So why didn’t the NHC grab hold of this trend until literally this afternoon? They actually ended up doing a great job with the track, which I felt was by far the most difficult part of the forecast, but they seriously undersold the potential intensity (remember when it was barely going to make landfall as a minimal hurricane?) I’m really not trying to knock the NHC, but I would be curious as to why they were so very conservative on Laura.

[jdjaguar]

I call it Lake Chuck lol.

Chuck

are you going to live stream?
Is there a blue shed nearby?

[Kingarabian]

Anyone have links that they can share that will be live when Laura hits.

[sweetpea]

Yes he had to go to the bathroom. LOL

His stream and Jeff Piotrowski's are going to be nuts tonight.

does anyone have a link to Jeff's stream

https://www.pscp.tv/Jeff_Piotrowski/1gqxvaOpDEnJB

[wkwally]

I call it Lake Chuck lol.

Chuck

are you going to live stream?
Is there a blue shed nearby?

I still want to know who built that blue shed

[sweetpea]

Anyone have links that they can share that will be live when Laura hits.

https://www.pscp.tv/Jeff_Piotrowski/1gqxvaOpDEnJB

https://www.facebook.com/reedtimmer2.0