hurricane coming...

EYE OF A MONSTER: @NOAA's #GOES16🛰️gives an up-close look at the lightning swirling around the eye of #HurricaneIda, a dangerous Cat. 4 #hurricane, nearing the coast of southeastern #Louisiana. Updates: https://t.co/S9zyq5ZuZv #LAwx #MSwx #idahurricane #Ida pic.twitter.com/lhwYUy4DtN

— NOAA Satellites - Public Affairs (@NOAASatellitePA) August 29, 2021

i guess this is the EEL signature

My nerves can't take this.

I have friends there who weren't able to leave for various reasons, all my fingers crossed for them and the city.

Live cam on Bourbon St.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ziciboPx7w

Obviously it's still early and I by no means wish to handwave away the damage and destruction, but it seems a very encouraging sign that the levees and barriers seem to have held and performed well against this one.

indeed. i was feeling the schadenfreude possibility increasing every time i read about how officials weren't too worried about flooding this year because of the $15B in infrastructure since Katrina, etc

The worst of it for us is predicted to start in a couple of hours -- fingers crossed for our crappy roof.

good luck!

How did you fare, WmC? Hope you're safe!

Either it's slowed down so much that the worst of it hasn't hit us yet, or it completely blew itself out getting here. We've had rain all day but not much wind. The temperature drop has been wonderful. How has it gone for you? In the power outage zone?

https://i.imgur.com/Dw4QalB.png

I mean, this looks bad, but it's not horribly windy here right now.

that NOLA webcams was surprisingly chill, granted I only skimmed it but I was pleasantly surprised.

my friend's house there (Alex Chilton's old house) is OK apparently, said friend is riding it out in Ohio.

have we had hurricanes in greenland before?

Here are the Saturday morning Key Messages for Hurricane #Larry. The latest NHC forecasts are at https://t.co/tW4KeFW0gB for this system. pic.twitter.com/QWS7RHLhqM

— National Hurricane Center (@NHC_Atlantic) September 11, 2021

Hello from St John's

nice video here

Full evolution of Hurricane #Larry as a named tropical system across the Atlantic Ocean through Newfoundland landfall, 01 - 11 Sep 2021. pic.twitter.com/YJKvoboCiJ

— Bill Line (@bill_line) September 11, 2021

Somebody sent me a link showing that the wind was up seemingly everywhere in teh Northern hemisphere.
https://earth.nullschool.net/?fbclid=IwAR0KaE-UyPYrHlvV6ZrSS1kn561hBlg7qAOMFnB7jFKKrgFztPs_XFIwb8Q#current/wind/surface/level/orthographic=-2.55,51.47,7114/loc=-9.094,53.264
I haven't looked at a global map like that during a storm before so i can't tell if that is anything odd. just seemed like wind was up across all the coastal areas of Europe and the East Coast of the States. Could be that that is what happens in a wind like today. I had just assumed that a wind would be more localised but I'm not a meteorologist. Also interesting to see that wind patterns seemed to form a calm area over a county to the North of Here, not sure if it was Mayo or Roscommon. Just that winds seemed to be forming a pattern circulating it and therefore the wind above it seemed to be way lower than elsewhere.

The wind sounded like an approaching train here (New York State) last night. Interesting that it's up all over.

may be normal to have that amount of wind going on . Seems to be a lot above like 20KMH and quite a bit higher. I don't know what an ambient non storm pattern looks like really. I assume if we have a atmosphere we are going to get some movement but seems to be quite a bit right now.

i think it's usually pretty windy

everyone know's it's windy

-'

*a cold wind blows to the north*

*from the south, i meant. a cold wind flows from south to north*

Ming the merciless has his finger on the Wind button

*intense close-up of very loose face cheeks of a rugged sailor on a stormy deck. the scarred flesh rapidly flaps in and out in the hard wind*

*olympic triple jump, qualifying round, heat 2: World Record*

*wind assisted

*ACME Flags, Sales Dept. "Orders are off the charts! it's the wind! it's the wind destroying the old flags!!"*

"Idiot weeeeend"

should've bought a kite obviously.

wind stocks futures are through the roof on the wind sock stock market! it looks like there will be a christmas after all!

it’s a windy day in Ireland gan dabht

So we already know that the next five are:

Storm Corrie
Storm Dudley
Storm Eunice
Storm Franklin
Storm Gladys

which don't really sound very stormlike names. I mean hope this is a reflection of their personalities and they will all arrive peacefully and leave at a polite hour .
Not heard what the damage so far has been.

Or if the Mirror is the best place to go to to find out what storms are called.

Oh & at least the local University has delayed all exams due for today until Sunday.

Is Barra a name now and not just an island in the Utter Hebrides or what you call a barrow in Glasgow?

Short answer, yes. Met Éireann to blame for this one.

https://www.rmets.org/sites/default/files/inline-images/storm%20names%202021%20-%2022.jpg

Imagine Storm Logan will be a right bastard

didn't he shoot himself so Katie could get a heart transplant? I haven't watched The Bold & The Beautiful for a long time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD9np5GkgPo

a ‘hurricane’ is by definition tropical, so this is just a big fuckin storm hitting western alaska

While this storm is powerful and significant in every stretch of the imagination, it is also one of the most picturesque. It really is something out of a textbook. #akwx #AKstrong #beringsea pic.twitter.com/obwky8v4Ug

— NWS Fairbanks (@NWSFairbanks) September 17, 2022

Ian. Coming right over the top of me.

Sorry, all. Hang tight. I can send Campari at a moment's notice.

Nova Scotia got hit hard by a big fuckin storm last weekend (Fiona aftermath) — lowest barometric pressure ever recorded in Canada.

stay safe, florida and coastal friends

Ian's not coming over the top of me anymore, but it is going over Neanderthal.

partner's family lives in Cape Coral, where everything is cul-de-sacs interpenetrating with mazes of canals. we're following everything from afar right now, pretty fuckin bleak tbqh. most of the fam is away on vacation right now, but their little brother and his kid are holed up there somewhere (with his phone off all day, of course). hoping for the best.

yeah, good luck Casino's partner's family! My sister just moved to Cape Coral. She is not there now so that's one less worry. I spent a day at Boca Grande last year, pretty beach and cute town.

we're doing ok - thankfully it's supposed to weaken a lot, looking like upper trop force winds/hurricane gusts. not gonna be fun, but it's what it is. more worried about my aunt, who is in Ft Myers and got thwacked today, but I know she has been hit hard before and knows what to do. still - the videos are concerning in many coastal/low-lying areas (which she's not, thankfully).

hope you're ok Chris, and that your partner's family is ok, Doc.

Alfred, don't even have to ask, I know you're busting out the Campari.

heard reports of a 12-16 ft. Campari surge, look out.. it's gonna get sticky

in typical Florida fashion, I've already seen Floridians scream "fake news" because the winds aren't 140 mph where they are.

the rain is what's really gonna suck