Gulf Coast people, please let us know how you are.
FOX: The outer bands of Hurricane Nate lashed parts of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi with heavy rain Saturday afternoon as Gulf Coast residents prepared for an evening landfall and those in low-lying areas fled for higher ground.
As of 5 p.m. ET, Nate was located about 50 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River and about 140 miles south of Biloxi, Miss. It was still a Category 1 storm but was expected to reach Category 2 strength before making landfall. The storm killed at least 21 people after strafing Central America earlier in the week. MORE
Watch closely Puerto Rico.
New Orleans will show you how to handle a hurricane.
NOT!
You just know that with a hurricane named Nate that there will be a lot of inevitable Ur a Nate jokes.
Yay! It’s NOT hitting us this time!
This is a serious storm.
https://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic=-89.68,26.79,2693/loc=-88.595,28.303
My Mom lives in Pensacola and we spoke last night about this storm. Her reaction (as someone who survived Hurricane Ivan) is “Meh”
Well it rained heavy about 5 hours ago, then eased off, now nothing.
TO f4ucorsair
Ain’t nothin’ but a itsy bitsy Cat 1!
Just looks REEL PURDY at that site.
We get winds like that up here in the Pacific North Left all the times…but it’s the storm surge and LOOTERS that take their toll!
The problem is the spin off tornadoes.
The problem right now is the spin off tornadoes.
Who leaves for a one?
I’ll think about it if it’s a four, but a one.
For those that need it (we have our own, here is Ventusky, it’s another good all in one source for weather.
https://www.ventusky.com/
Here’s what we use for Guam, ran by another retired Chief:
http://weather.jeffspiratescove.com/
We’re having a very active year on this side also. The typhoons have been forming as they pass over us, so that’s a good year.