Re: Weather Alerts
Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 6:45 pm
I'm happy to hear BB isn't waiting. Don't like the look of this one at all and the short notice is awful for the complexities of evacuation (and COVID). Ida will traverse the highest Ocean Heat Content (OHC) in the basin, coupled with low wind shear & plenty of upper-level outflow. Category 4 is likely, 5 not out of the question.
It's nuts this is so close and only at Advisory #6 at 5pm EDT.
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If you can believe it, it was the 29th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew in Miami August 24th. My friend (and client for many years) Bryan Norcross is now with Channel 10 in Miami, you may know him from The Weather Channel or the Today show. He has a series of video podcasts that are interesting and helpful. Here's Bryan with a brief look at what happened with Katrina and Andrew. It wasn't a hurricane disaster, it was an ENGINEERING disaster. Florida got Hurriane Wilma in October.
This was coverage at Katrina landfall... the hope was that the core being to the east would help (the west side of a hurricane is less powerful). But with the engineering failure all bets were off.
Don't fu*k with Ida. Check on your friends and family, this popped up quickly.
![Image](https://media.gettyimages.com/photos/from-left-nancy-walker-as-ida-morgenstern-and-valerie-harper-stars-as-picture-id170508620?s=594x594)
It's nuts this is so close and only at Advisory #6 at 5pm EDT.
![Image](https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/storm_graphics/AT09/refresh/AL092021_5day_cone_with_line_and_wind+png/155544_5day_cone_with_line_and_wind.png)
If you can believe it, it was the 29th anniversary of Hurricane Andrew in Miami August 24th. My friend (and client for many years) Bryan Norcross is now with Channel 10 in Miami, you may know him from The Weather Channel or the Today show. He has a series of video podcasts that are interesting and helpful. Here's Bryan with a brief look at what happened with Katrina and Andrew. It wasn't a hurricane disaster, it was an ENGINEERING disaster. Florida got Hurriane Wilma in October.
Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic basin, and the second-most intense tropical cyclone recorded in the Western Hemisphere, after Hurricane Patricia in 2015. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which included three of the ten most intense Atlantic hurricanes ever (along with #4 Rita and #7 Katrina), Wilma was the twenty-second storm, thirteenth hurricane, sixth major hurricane, fourth Category 5 hurricane, and the second-most destructive hurricane of the 2005 season.
This was coverage at Katrina landfall... the hope was that the core being to the east would help (the west side of a hurricane is less powerful). But with the engineering failure all bets were off.
Hurricane Katrina landfall coverage meteorologists David Bernard & Bryan Norcross. WFOR CBS 4 Miami
Aug 29, 2013
David Bernard
I was broadcasting from Miami with Bryan Norcross. At the time, the idea was that the core of the hurricane passed east of New Orleans. Therefore the storm surge was not going to be high enough in Lake Pontchartrain to overtop the levees. We knew that St. Bernard and Plaquemines would be a different story. However, we didn't anticipate, nor did anyone else, that there would be a massive structural failure system wide.
Goes to show how little you know if the "fog of war" until you know.
Don't fu*k with Ida. Check on your friends and family, this popped up quickly.