Don’t Underestimate a Cat. 1
State College, Pa. — 29 August 2012 — AccuWeather.com reports before pummeling Florida and the Gulf Coast of the U.S. with flooding rain, Isaac first became organized more than a thousand miles east of the Leeward Islands over the Atlantic.
Here’s the interesting stats:
Distance Traveled
From forming into the ninth tropical depression of the 2012 Atlantic Hurricane Season on Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012, to churning over southern Louisiana Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, Isaac has traveled about 2,695 miles.
High Wind Gusts Recorded
Louisiana
Belle Chasse Ferry Dock in Plaquemines Parish: 113 mph
Miss Canyon Oil Rig: 102 mph
Boothville: 84 mph
New Orleans (NAS/Alvin Callendar Airport): 79 mph
Mississippi
Gulfport: 70 mph
Biloxi: 55 mph
Excessive Rainfall Amounts
Florida
Royal Palm Beach: 15.86 inches
Boynton Beach: 13.74 inches
Greenacres: 13.10 inches
Wellington: 12.55 inches
Louisiana
New Orleans: 9.57 inches
Boothville, La.: 6.65 inches
South Lafourche Airport: 4.89 inches
Slidell, La.: 3.60 inches
Mississippi
Pascagoula: 5.35 inches
Gulfport: 4.14 inches
Hattiesburg: 3.32 inches
Biloxi: 2.16 inches
Storm Surge Heights
Louisiana
Shell Beach: Between 9 and 11 feet
Lake Pontchartrain at New Orleans: Around 6 feet
Grand Isle: Around 5 feet
Mississippi
Pascagoula: Around 4 feet
Alabama
Mobile Bay: Around 3-5 feet
Severe Weather Spawned by Isaac
Lyman, Miss.
At 12:13 p.m. CDT Wednesday, Aug. 29, 2012, trained spotters reported a tornado 9 miles southwest of Lyman, Miss., near Long Beach.
Tampa, Fla.
A waterspout moved onshore on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, damaging six homes 2 miles east-southeast of Tampa, Fla. Fences, trees and roofs were damaged on the properties.
Vero Beach, Fla.
An EF-0 tornado touched down on Monday, Aug. 27, 2012, impacting Vero Palm Estates, Countryside Mobile Home Park and Paraside Park Lifting about 5 miles west of Vero Beach. The tornado produced a discontinuous damage path, including minor damage to 62 structures and major damage to 31 structures.
By Meghan Evans, Meteorologist for AccuWeather.com
@ur momisugly thelastdemocrat says:
August 29, 2012 at 6:09 pm
So, we continue on with no hurricane making continental landfall on U.S. since what – Ike?
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I think it was Irene in 2011?
Hey, Isaac, c’mon up north! KC BBQ is great, and I hear that Oklahoma Joe’s burnt ends are to die for. You can hang out and rain all you want up here while you treat yourself to some good Q, buddy. Don’t delay. We need the rain.
eyesonu
August 29, 2012 at 9:13 pm
DesertYote says:
August 29, 2012 at 4:56 pm
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Sure, I am at work now and don’t have access to my library. I won’t be at home until around 1900 Pacific time, but I do have a link to an excellent paper by an author, Nowak, who used to be on the hybrid side of the fence ( I have been following this issue for 20 years myself). If I find the time I will try to google it.
Lady tn Red: your reference to McPhee ‘s book concerning harnassing the Mississippi River is incorrect. The Corps has spent billions on structures designed to prevent the natural change of course into the channel of the Aatchafalya River. So far, it works somewhat, but the force of theriver’s current is undermining the structures. If theMississippi does change course, which seems likely, New Orleans will become high and dry.
McPhee’s point is that every time we play God with nature we usually fail and screw things up royally.
eyesonu
August 29, 2012 at 9:13 pm
DesertYote says:
August 29, 2012 at 4:56 pm
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My morning SCRUM meeting was canceled, YAY! I did a quick google and got the following. It does not appear to be the complete paper, but its more then a stupid press release.
http://wolfology1.tripod.com/id229.htm
I just remembered the main author of an other study that was interesting, Wilson. I’ll see if I can scare that one up and find the complete Nowak paper.
Not even. Willis had a post around that time, looking at recorded surface winds at landfall. It was a tropical storm by then. Here in New Jersey, we hardly noticed the winds as different than any other storm front.
I watch pics of flooded areas. Sad.
I like(d) New Orleans, A great city. Frankly I’m scared to return, post-Katrina, a different city. Not “my” New Orleans….
I’m just sad about our silly arrogance. And the folk who live the lie. ….Lady in Red
Oh Kay, think again. Irene was a tropical storm at landfall at NC and was never anything more from there. We are only told it was a hurricane in the days leading up to landfall. Landfall let us mere mortals in on the action. Political hype resulted in the distrust on NHC reports to this day. The truth is the best option.
DesertYote says:
August 30, 2012 at 8:18 am
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I look forward to reviewing any info you provide.
One primary point I make is: Why the need to relocate the so-called “red wolves” from a place where they existed for historical time frames? They were captured and then declared extinct in the wild. That was a man-made issue. Why?
Happy alligators? Unintended consequences? Simply grant seeking? All of the above!
Anyway I sure the ‘gators loved Isaac.
Do you think NO could hang onto Isaac and just send a bit north each day, say for a week? Current forecast has center passing over my East Central IL location and forecast of 10 inch rain. That much at once doesn’t help a drought, and I have a finished basement :<
eyesonu
August 30, 2012 at 10:27 am
DesertYote says:
August 30, 2012 at 8:18 am
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One primary point I make is: Why the need to relocate the so-called “red wolves” from a place where they existed for historical time frames? They were captured and then declared extinct in the wild. That was a man-made issue. Why?
Happy alligators? Unintended consequences? Simply grant seeking? All of the above!
Anyway I sure the ‘gators loved Isaac.
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You can bet it was for political and not scientific reasons!
I don’t want to hyjack this thread, but if you do some research you will find that the envirowacko lefties were using “Red Wolf” populations as a means of controlling territory ( BTW, they do not like the C.lycaon theory one bit as it would[should] invalidate the current listing of the fictitious C. rufus, thus destroying their carefully constructed plans). They would have certainly had some Marxist scheme in mind when they did it. I remember that once the US Navy agreed to host a small population only to have the Watermelons trying to tell them afterwards, that they had to stop holding training exorcizes because it might upset the wolves.
The science of carnivore evolution is hard enough without it being polluted with politics. E.g. recent work shows that my closest extent relative is C. aureus! Did the ancestor of C. latrans evolve in the Old World? Was there a holarctic progenitor species related to edwardii? Inquiring mind want to know.
Hurricanes are deadly forces, but they are also quite beautiful in their own way. Have you ever walked around in the eye of a hurricane? When I was younger I had the chance to do this during a category 4 hurricane (Keith) and it was so surreal, it was like someone hit the pause button on the environment around me.
NOAA has been fudging wind data for years. Look at many of the storms and see if you find official observations of winds as high as they say. All of a sudden, they decide to take a super-strict definition approach with Isaac? As Joe Bastardi, said this would have been a 2/3 in the past. The idea that a 965mb low is a TS is crazy. NOAA wanted people to think this was a TS/borderline cat 1 so when the damage is much worse than a usual storm of that intensity, they can point to CAGW.
DesertYote says:
August 30, 2012 at 1:10 pm
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This is the last post on the topic this week. You are right as far as diverting the comments OT. Please check back early next week when this thread has died down and perhaps the mods will allow it to proceed. This is a topic I have a very strong interest in. Many others may also.
Sorry mods, but issues with the Louisiana – Texas coastal regions wont let me forget about the OT issue discussed with DesertYote.
The ‘gators loved Isaac! Can we put ’em on a green diet? I’lll toss the first green meat, please.
Oops!
http://flhurricane.com/clarkmodelanimator.php?year=2012&storm=9
I searched WUWT using the search function, and “irene,” but could not locate the post where commenters hashed out the data that Irene was no longer a hurricane before making continental U.S. landfall.
To target by date, though, I went to Wikipedia to find date of landfall – the wikipedia entry for Hurricane Irene notes, in the “North Carolina” section, that Irene had no meteorological readings to support classification as ‘hurricane’ at US landfall.
Therefore, Ike was the last hurricane to make continental U.S. landfall, until evidence shows otherwise. Isaac should not be tallied in the count of 2012 landfall hurricanes.
Lady in Red,
I can assure you that we down here in NO are doing just fine, thanks.
Since there has not been a correlation observed between hurricanes and global warming, what the hell are you talking about?
“””””…..omegaman66 says:
August 31, 2012 at 9:06 pm
Just thought you would want to know……”””””
omegaman, I have the solution to your nutria problem; eat them; better yet, open a restaurant to serve them.
In Ghana, native farmers, now farm raise “grasscutters” a sitting image of nutria, for food. It is a delicacy in Ghana, to the point of threatening wild populations, but they now grow them like rabbits or mink in cages, and all they eat is grass which is available for free in the wild.
So nutria, would be a good start to raising capybara for food.