Hurricane Hurricane Barry (Gulf of Mexico)

[Kory]

They’ve had gusts near hurricane force down there. Not surprising.

 

[Kory]

Solid tropical storm conditions at my parents house in metro NOLA. Pay attention to that feeder band drifting north....

 

[David in SW Blount]

What's up with the rain force field along the SE Louisiana coast this morning? The rain evaporates as it reaches the coastline below New Orleans. I assume that will erode later today?

 

[Kory]

What's up with the rain force field along the SE Louisiana coast this morning? The rain evaporates as it reaches the coastline below New Orleans. I assume that will erode later today?

Dry air in the upper levels.

Edit: it will erode throughout the day and bands of rain will stream inland.

 

[Blountwolf]

Today's term of the day: atmospheric river. Or as I like to call it - the firehose. Mobile, you're up.

 

[Kory]

Just saying how good the folks at the NHC are...they're 32 miles off from their first forecast cone to current/imminent landfall.

And kudos to the models for picking up (especially the Euro) on this mesoscale convective system all the way over the Plains that it forecasted to move SE into the Gulf and develop. We've come a long way.

 

[Kory]

Today's term of the day: atmospheric river. Or as I like to call it - the firehose. Mobile, you're up.

Yep, you can see the fingerprint of some of the feeder bands that will begin to set up throughout the day. No one should be having a sigh of relief...just yet.

 

[Kory]

Here's a look at the drier air that has prevented a lot of the rain over Louisiana. It is eroding and we'll see long, feeder bands that will get stuck over locations with 2-4" per hour rain events.

Notice the wind barbs over Louisiana are out of the NW ushering in drier air. But over AL, where the wind barbs are out of the SW, we have that large feeder band. That will all switch out of the South and its game on. This is at the 300mb level (so wayyyyy up).

Here is the 12z New Orleans NWS sounding. Again, the dry air in the upper levels. But even with that...2.3" PWATS! These will be efficient rain producers.

 

[TornadoFan]

We offically have Hurricane Barry.

 

[Lori]

We offically have Hurricane Barry.

Yep! Time to change thread title!

 

[Kory]

Solid tropical storm conditions in the metro New Orleans area.

 

[Kory]

First July hurricane in Louisiana since Cindy in the infamous 2005 season.

 

[bjdeming]

Today's term of the day: atmospheric river. Or as I like to call it - the firehose. Mobile, you're up.

Yes, what word from Mobile? (Edit: I didn't have local sources but found this page, which is very helpful.)

Mayor Cantrell mentions heavy rain there in this morning's press conference, where she tells it like it is.

 

[Kory]

And Mobile has seen the most from this system so far. Can't make this up.

 

[akt1985]

Hurricane Barry made landfall near Intercostal City, Louisiana and is now back down to a tropical storm.

 

[Jetstream]

Tornado warnings currently in effect for some SW AL counties.

 

[BayouWeatherGeek]

https://www.katc.com/news/iberia-parish/tree-with-beehive-falls-onto-jeanerette-home

As if having a tree fall their home wasn't bad enough, a family in Jeanerette was then swarmed by bees that had been living in said tree. One woman got stung pretty badly but family members and first responders were able to rescue her and she and her family are currently at the hospital.

 

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[warneagle]

This was some pretty amazing video from an oil rig in the Gulf.

 

[KoD]

I don't have the payed version of Euro to compare but the ICON nailed the track remarkably well. Monday night the operational GFS showed a Texas coast landfall and the ICON had almost perfectly depicted the landfall & track by that time and stayed pretty consistent. I'm not very familiar with the model but it earned some credit with me. I'm going to give it good attention for the next tropical system and see how it does.