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re: Hurricane Ida - were the wind reports across SELA greatly under measured?
Posted on 5/26/22 at 2:21 pm to LegendInMyMind
Posted on 5/26/22 at 2:21 pm to LegendInMyMind
The tree that snapped and fell on my house thinks the wind was stronger than reported.
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Posted on 5/26/22 at 2:26 pm to TDsngumbo
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I may go do that, though it might be a bit late for it now.
It is for Ida. You can do it for any storm going forward.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 2:37 pm to TDsngumbo
The weird thing about Ida is that the gusting period seemed to be even with the sustained wind period.
It seems like usually in every, say, two minute period you may get 1:45 of regular sustained winds with a 15-20 second gusting phase but Ida seemed to be pretty much a 50-50 split.
Made for one crazy (and long!) night.
It seems like usually in every, say, two minute period you may get 1:45 of regular sustained winds with a 15-20 second gusting phase but Ida seemed to be pretty much a 50-50 split.
Made for one crazy (and long!) night.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 2:40 pm to LaBR4
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Huge difference between the airport, south to the 10/12 split to Highland Rd
Rode it out in south Baton Rouge and was amazed how different the damage looked compared to the goodwood area. They had to use chainsaws to open our street up and you could barely tell there was a storm up airline
Posted on 5/26/22 at 2:48 pm to Ed Osteen
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Rode it out in south Baton Rouge and was amazed how different the damage looked compared to the goodwood area. They had to use chainsaws to open our street up and you could barely tell there was a storm up airline
That's because we were on the western side of the eye of a very strong and still decently in tact hurricane. The gradient on the western side of the eye was very, very tight. A mile made a huge difference. The damage here in far northeast Ascension was tremendous. My parents live in Donaldsonville and when I drove there the day after to check on them, it looked like a strong tropical storm blew threw. I was shocked since they are further south and I figured they'd have had it worse than I did but nope. The angle the eye came in from was key.
This post was edited on 5/26/22 at 2:49 pm
Posted on 5/26/22 at 2:49 pm to TDsngumbo
I have seen screen shots from three different vessels docked in Fourchon that recorded gusts over 185 knots.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 3:17 pm to TDsngumbo
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northeast Ascension, if that helps, where the western eye wall passed.
Probably about 20 miles west of where the eyewall passed.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 3:18 pm to Walking the Earth
I rode it out in Raceland and yes it seemed like the gusts came more frequent than usual.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 3:19 pm to TDsngumbo
I was getting 95+ MPH gusts right before we lost power on my weather station in Lafayette.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 3:40 pm to CootKilla
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It should be noted that two ships moored at Port Fourchon reported instantaneous wind
gusts of 194 kt and 150 kt as Ida passed over.
Holy shite
Posted on 5/26/22 at 3:47 pm to fightin tigers
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Probably about 20 miles west of where the eyewall passed.
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northeast Ascension, if that helps, where the western eye wall passed.
Probably about 20 miles west of where the eyewall passed.
Absolutely not. Check your distance again, baw.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 3:48 pm to TDsngumbo
Thought the western eyewall was over Manchac
Posted on 5/26/22 at 3:50 pm to bbarras85
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Holy shite
Those gusts weren't included because the particulars couldn't be verified and the equipment may not have been calibrated.
And they weren't setup correctly to measure sustained winds.
This post was edited on 5/26/22 at 3:51 pm
Posted on 5/26/22 at 3:51 pm to fightin tigers
No, the eastern eye wall was over Manchac. The western eyewall went right over the far northeastern sections of Ascension Parish as the eye itself passed right over Livingston.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 3:53 pm to TDsngumbo
The eye was 12 miles wide at that point?
My dad is in PV, said it was probably 75 mph winds. He thought Gustav was worse.
My dad is in PV, said it was probably 75 mph winds. He thought Gustav was worse.
This post was edited on 5/26/22 at 3:54 pm
Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:04 pm to fightin tigers
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The eye was 12 miles wide at that point?
Roughly, give or take a few.
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My dad is in PV, said it was probably 75 mph winds. He thought Gustav was worse.
I'm very close to Port Vincent. Your dad was drunk that night.
Hang on, is your dad a Gustav baw?
This post was edited on 5/26/22 at 4:06 pm
Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:18 pm to TDsngumbo
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Hurricane Ida - were the wind reports across SELA greatly under measured?
I'm curious myself. The max wind gust for my area was listed as 90 or so mph with a sustained windspeed of 75 or so. We were in the eyewall for a good 3+ hours and the damage done to the trees all around was staggering. Most of them were all defoliated and some debarked badly. I don't buy those wind speeds.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:19 pm to TDsngumbo
What was the height of your anemometer ? as you know, official wind readings are measured at a height of 10 meters or approximately 33 feet above ground level.
Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:22 pm to TDsngumbo
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Hang on, is your dad a Gustav baw
Negative. I believe worst he saw in the area was Katrina; but other circumstances probably contributed to that.
He is just down the creek from you.
This post was edited on 5/26/22 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 5/26/22 at 4:23 pm to Klingler7
I think the highest gust I had was 121. Location between Nola and BR just south of I10. We hit gusts over 100 many times.
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