ATL: ZETA - Post-Tropical - Discussion

[northjaxpro]

Looking at radar, it looks loke the eye is about to pass over the city of Larose.

[tolakram]

[Sanibel]

Land based weather station recorded 105mph gust in landfall zone...

[supercane4867]

Hurricane Zeta Tropical Cyclone Update
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL AL282020
500 PM CDT Wed Oct 28 2020

...EYEWALL OF ZETA APPROACHING NEW ORLEANS WITH STRONG WINDS...
...LIFE-THREATENING SURGE OCCURRING NEAR THE COAST...

Don't venture outside when the calm eye of the hurricane passes
over, as dangerous winds will return very quickly when the eye
moves away. Stronger winds, especially in gusts, are likely on
high rise buildings.

An unofficial weather station in Golden Meadow just reported
sustained winds of 94 mph (151 km/h) and a gust to 110 mph (177
km/h)

A wind gust to 52 mph (84 km/h) was recently reported at Houma,
Louisiana, and a wind gust to 53 mph (85 km/h) was reported at New
Orleans Lakefront Airport.



SUMMARY OF 500 PM CDT...2200 UTC...INFORMATION
----------------------------------------------
LOCATION...29.5N 90.4W
ABOUT 35 MI...55 KM SSW OF NEW ORLEANS LOUISIANA
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...110 MPH...175 KM/H
PRESENT MOVEMENT...NNE OR 25 DEGREES AT 24 MPH...39 KM/H
MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE...972 MB...28.70 INCHES

$$
Forecaster Blake

[us89]

An unofficial weather station in Golden Meadow just reported sustained winds of 94 mph (151 km/h) and a gust to 110 mph (177 km/h).

[FLpanhandle91]

Expecting a turn more ENE very soon. Hopefully in time to spare NOLA.

[bella_may]

Wow the Eastern eyewall and quadrant is STILL filling in

[Ryxn]

Yup, gonna have to wait on post-season analysis.

[Steve]

Getting close to TS here. Almost go time as I expect this to get it within he next hour or so.

[northjaxpro]

Storm surge along the Missisippi Coast is now being forecast to 7--11 feet.

This is very significant if it comes to fruition.

[Shawee]

Gusty in the big easy, eye wall rapidly closing in... so far so good. Keep moving. Just thankful this one isn’t hitting our friends in the Lake Charles area!

Yeah. It's kicking up. Starting to get some gusts up around TS here in Mid-City. You can hear the howls from time to time, but it's more leaves than limbs so far. Bout to get real.

Also for the record, power blinked 3x and cable was momentarily lost. Bout to lose that all, but hopefully I'll still have phone service. Everybody be safe. This is going to affect lots of us up to the Atlantic Coast.

I’m about 500’ west of the 17th street canal. Lights solid so far. My “slack” messages from workers around New Orleans reporting outages, downed tree and first broken window. I believe real has arrived.

[ElectricStorm]

In terms of winds this will likely be one of the strongest hits on NOLA on record right?

[poof121]

Lights flickering, good squalls off of Harbor Drive on the lake in Slidell.

[tiger_deF]

In terms of recorded winds and gusts I've seen Category 3 cyclones with far less impact

[saila]

Getting close to TS here. Almost go time as I expect this to get it within he next hour or so.

Good Luck to you and everyone in Zeta’s path

[AlabamaDave]

The deep reds of the northern eyewall have reached the Westbank Expressway just across the river from the city of New Orleans. Hopefully not quite as rough as the eastern side, which will miss the most densely populated areas, but New Orleans East, Chalmette, Meraux and points south and east will get hit hard.

[Kazmit]

I don't know if it's just me, but it feels like every US hurricane landfall this year has been in the evening.

[Steve]

In terms of winds this will likely be one of the strongest hits on NOLA on record right?

Way back it’s probably been stronger but I never looked at it. 70’s was the highest I remember but I was 1 for Betsy so maybe that might have been strongest in in my lifetime.

[northjaxpro]

I don't know if it's just me, but it feels like every US hurricane landfall this year has been in the evening.

Or in the early pre-dawn hours like Sally did.

[Puddinhead]

Another report in from New Orleans...Gentilly Terrace for those of you familiar with the city.

We still have power so far, although we just got back from dropping off some food at my son's house in between gusts. They're a few blocks away, and heading back into our house we heard "thunder" which actually was probably a transformer blowing. Oddly, their power went out then but just now came back on. I don't say this often, but outstanding on Entergy's part.

Winds are periodically gusting high enough that I've been nervously watching the huge pecan tree that dominates my backyard...twenty feet tops from the back of the house.

Annndddd.....their power just went out again.