re: Tropical Storm Nicholas - Flash Flood Watch for South Louisiana

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I wouldn't be surprised if it was much less than we suspect. Like some sustained winds of 60-70 and a gust or two at 90.

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No way of knowing but had to be hurricane force gusts in western Washington Parish that night. A huge oak in my neighbors yard snapped like a twig about 8 feet up before the power went out about 8:30.

Careful.

We're not talking anything crazy like Ida but it forms in the right spot it could organize into a decent TS to even a min hurricane. Rain will still be the main story but I wouldnt write it off as just a weak TS just yet.

That’s why I was going by current projections. I don’t count my chickens

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Wunderground has a bunch of weather stations from people's houses linked that you can find on a map, but at about 10pm they weren't registering anything, probably because they rely on electricity.

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I question how well some of those are calibrated. Some within a few miles of each other were showing radically different wind speeds and directions at the same time. Granted there can be local gusts but one shouldn't be showing SSW while another just down the road shows due E

Brings the shitty stuff to sela also

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I question how well done of those are calibrated. Some within a few miles of each other were showing radically different wind speeds and directions at the same time. Granted there can be local gusts but one shouldn't be showing SSW while another just down the road shows due E

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Right, they must be placed perfectly in order to collect an accurate wind reading. My vantage pro 2, for example, is placed 23’ above the surface because I can’t safely place it at the required height of 33’. On top of that, it’s only accurate for wind blowing out of the ESE due to trees blocking every other direction.

The highest reading it measured the night of Ida was 78mph out of the ENE and then it got hit by debris or something and stopped being anywhere close to accurate after that. This was an hour and a half before the hardest winds started blowing out of almost due north. my gusts had to be 100-115mph.

LC’s last year:
Direct hit by Cat 4, freeze, flood, dodge bullet, flood again!
If that was a relationship, I would dump that crazy bitch!

New euro

Tropics really heating up now

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. Models have been all over the place but the one common theme has been the potential for some bigtime rain totals.

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We aren’t talking Harvey/Imelda for Beaumont area right? I’d like to make at least one more year till we flood again