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N.O. Intl Airport has had about 7.25 +/- loose change since all this started mid-yesterday. That's not all that much but there is still about 12 hours of this nonsense yet to go before the immediate coast is out of it. There is already flooding but an exhaustive review of the Times Picayune has little mention of storm surges and much of what I see in the pictures appears to be from rain collecting in low spots. Other communities in south Louisiana are dealing with more or less the same thing. The NWS, N.O/Baton Rouge Office has a gob of rainfall totals, accurate as of 7AM CDT (there might be updates later). Some of those amounts pass 8 inches.
This is a pretty extensive storm. An oil rig off Sabine Pass, 200 or so miles away from the center of the action had a 50 mph gust earlier today. 30 to 40 gusts have been recorded all over the area.
The thing about Lee is that he is in no hurry to go anywhere. He'll move sorta-kinda northward (the NHC guesses) for the next 24 or near enough hours. After that, the trough he's riding on will outrun him leaving him stranded without any appreciable steering for the next 48 or so hours...And there he'll sit, pee'ing all over a good section of Louisiana and Mississippi.
By this time New Orleans and its immediate environs will be well out of trhe worst of it but the slop won't be that far off and intense showers are still a possibility. Since Lee will rain on a lot of watersheds draining into the Mississippi, there will still be a lot of water moving past New Orleans even after it has seen the last of him
Last edited by FVWinters; 09-03-2011 at 05:59 PM..
N.O. Intl Airport has had about 7.25 +/- loose change since all this started mid-yesterday. That's not all that much but there is still about 12 hours of this nonsense yet to go before the immediate coast is out of it. There is already flooding but an exhaustive review of the Times Picayune has little mention of storm surges and much of what I see in the pictures appears to be from rain collecting in low spots. Other communities in south Louisiana are dealing with more or less the same thing. The NWS, N.O/Baton Rouge Office has a gob of rainfall totals, accurate as of 7AM CDT (there might be updates later). Some of those amounts pass 8 inches.
This is a pretty extensive storm. An oil rig off Sabine Pass, 200 or so miles away from the center of the action had a 50 mph gust earlier today. 30 to 40 gusts have been recorded all over the area.
The thing about Lee is that he is in no hurry to go anywhere. He'll move sorta-kinda northward (the NHC guesses) for the next 24 or near enough hours. After that, the trough he's riding on will outrun him leaving him stranded without any appreciable steering for the next 48 or so hours...And there he'll sit, pee'ing all over a good section of Louisiana and Mississippi.
By this time New Orleans and its immediate environs will be well out of trhe worst of it but the slop won't be that far off and intense showers are still a possibility. Since Lee will rain on a lot of watersheds draining into the Mississippi, there will still be a lot of water moving past New Orleans even after it has seen the last of him
All the red that the Palmer Drought Severity is showing for LA is gonna turn dark green
Louisiana could certainly use the rain, but they certainly don't want too much at once. Then again, ideal sceanarios don't play out as often as we'd like. Parts of the south, especially Georgia, could use some rain.
Apparently Lee did not get the memo about dying off after landfall. The nice little cold front hid it from Lee, and decided to help it out by bringing its rains very far north. One FOOT of rain up here in northern VA from Lee, and still raining, and its even worse even north of here. Between this and Irene, we have gotten 20-25+" of rain in two weeks. Pretty insane. Irene was short, less than 2 day event. Lee, not so much. Been pouring most of the time since last Saturday, and still pouring heavily this morning. Lee, or whats left of you now, please just go away! You've worn out your welcome.
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