NOLA.com article indirectly claims Loop Current setting the stage for 2005-like season because I, apparently, need another fire to stamp out

You may have seen this headline and link floating around social media recently. And before you tense up and start to worry too much, lets take a look at the article itself. The author, Nick…

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8/30/21 6AM Tropical Storm Ida update – rain, wind, tornado threat continues for Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama

Tropical Storm Ida continues to drift north across the counties of Mississippi. Heavy rain, flash flood warnings and power outages will continue for the next few hours before Ida finally moves off to the north.…

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8/29/21 230PM Hurricane Ida update: County-by-county forecast as well as power outage potentials and durations

Before I get started, Dr. Kim Wood a satellite data guru, fantastic meteorologist, and all around great human up at Mississippi State – and someone who is the pride of Oregon State University – put…

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8/29/21 1PM Hurricane Ida update: Landfall as Category 4 Hurricane, now starts to turn north

Hurricane Ida is slowly moving NW across inland SE Louisiana now. It made landfall shortly before noon today near Port Fourchon. It will now start to turn north and eventually northeast. As it moves ashore…

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8/29/21 8AM Hurricane Ida update: A county-by-county breakdown of potentials for sections of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama

A couple changes: I bumped up the peak wind gust across the board by 5mph. With how big this stom is now, the rainbands may not support higher sustained wind across the board (though there…

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8/28/21 7PM Hurricane Ida update: a county-by-county breakdown for parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama

Looking at the latest data, the NHC still hasn’t nudged things too far back to the east yet. Even though, Hurricane Ida continues to trek more northerly that true northwesterly. This is still slated to…

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8/28/21 2PM Hurricane Ida update – perhaps a wiggle to the east

hurricane Ida is now a Category 2 Hurricane as it continues to drift northwest around 15mph – currently at 16mph. This is slightly faster (by 1-2mph) than we thought yesterday. The storm is likely just…

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8/28/21 9AM Hurricane Ida county-by-county update for parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama

A real quick note on these county-by-county breakdowns. I’ve had some requests for coastal counties and some farther inland. I wish I could get them all. But, I have to draw a line somewhere. If…

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8/28/21 8AM Hurricane Ida Update: Rapid Intensification underway

Taking a look at the forecast information from the National Hurricane Center as well as satellite data, and there is little doubt that Hurricane Ida has begun to rapidly intensify this morning. Current Observations LOCATION…24.4N…

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