Comments on: Tropical Storm Gustav – Again

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 18:17:34 +0000

It’s too far out for any real accuracy, but I definitely don’t want it to hit near NOLA. I don’t think the levees will hold.

The key will be a floating mass of super-hot water in the Gulf. If it passes over that area, it will jump to Cat 5. Our coastal water has been cooled some by Fay dumping rain and blocking the sun, so that will mitigate, but no one deserves to get hit by this.

By: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester

Jack K., the Grumpy Forester — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:53:12 +0000

…I see this morning’s 5-day composite has the center of the track making landfall as a Cat 3 very near where Katrina came ashore. I don’t give a hoot about Trent Lott’s front porch, but the rest of the folks in that area don’t this again so soon…

I also notice that the NGFDL and NOGAPS models predict a track in your general direction. Be safe.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:00:37 +0000

It does sort of look like it’s attracted to the Louisiana coast at the moment. Those rebuilt New Orleans levees may get a work out.

Count on paying more for gasoline, because there is no way this thing isn’t going to affect Gulf oil production if it wanders anywhere in the Western Gulf of Mexico.

By: Jack K., the Grumpy Forester

Jack K., the Grumpy Forester — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:32:35 +0000

…looking at some of the computer model information at Weather Underground earlier today, I was struck by a particular ironic thought:

That guy from “Focus On The Family” cranked out a video a couple of weeks ago calling on the faithful to pray for pounding, immense, biblical rain to strike Denver on Thursday to disrupt Obama’s acceptance speech. What he may get instead is a deadly major hurricane coming ashore somewhere on the Gulf Coast during the Repubican National Convention and the Bushco version of FEMA in charge of the response…

I pray that none of this would come to pass, but the backstory is certainly ironic…