10-10-2017, 04:04 PM
Biggest hyped up and outright lies by the NWS and Weather Channel EVER!
When the storm made first landfall at the mouth of the Mississippi River at Southwest Pass, I logged into the Naval Research Lab's Website and was looking at live weather buoy data and NONE of the weather 20+ buoys scattered around in that part of the Gulf of Mexico were showing more than a 53mph sustained wind. Everyone at that point was reporting that it was 90+mph storm, had hurricane force winds extending 70 miles from the center and was strengthening fast and was going to bring in a 9' to 11' tidal surge.
It was also moving more than 26mph over ground at that time which had me scratching my head.
Everyone that has dealt with hurricanes knows that the faster the storm is moving over ground, the less surge it brings in with it and the faster it weakens. The worst surge along the Gulf Coast was about 5' at Biloxi and it also came in at high tide right after a full mood, which always increases the tide a foot or so.
ANYWAY, I had about 4 leaves fall out of a tree in my back yard and we got about 1/100 of an inch of rain, and I was just over 60 miles West of the landfall.
My folks in Pensacola got about 2" of rain, 3' above normal high tides and 20mph winds and that was about it.
I don't know what they think they accomplish when they hype these storms up way more than what they end up being. All it does it make folks more complacent the next time a storm lines up on us and they start this doom and destruction song and dance again, and one of these times, it's really going to measure up to the hype.
When the storm made first landfall at the mouth of the Mississippi River at Southwest Pass, I logged into the Naval Research Lab's Website and was looking at live weather buoy data and NONE of the weather 20+ buoys scattered around in that part of the Gulf of Mexico were showing more than a 53mph sustained wind. Everyone at that point was reporting that it was 90+mph storm, had hurricane force winds extending 70 miles from the center and was strengthening fast and was going to bring in a 9' to 11' tidal surge.
It was also moving more than 26mph over ground at that time which had me scratching my head.
Everyone that has dealt with hurricanes knows that the faster the storm is moving over ground, the less surge it brings in with it and the faster it weakens. The worst surge along the Gulf Coast was about 5' at Biloxi and it also came in at high tide right after a full mood, which always increases the tide a foot or so.
ANYWAY, I had about 4 leaves fall out of a tree in my back yard and we got about 1/100 of an inch of rain, and I was just over 60 miles West of the landfall.
My folks in Pensacola got about 2" of rain, 3' above normal high tides and 20mph winds and that was about it.
I don't know what they think they accomplish when they hype these storms up way more than what they end up being. All it does it make folks more complacent the next time a storm lines up on us and they start this doom and destruction song and dance again, and one of these times, it's really going to measure up to the hype.
[b][i]"It's always funny until someone loses an eye!"[/i][/b]
