Hurricane Hurricane Laura

[JS3564MiMo]

On a beeline to Lake Charles currently. A wobble East might put them in the western eyewall and worst of the surge goes east. Unfortunately that means it’s just passed onto another community...and a larger city in Lafayette.

Nice shot of mesovorts in the eyewall from Lake Charles Radar. Signature of upper echelon major hurricanes.

Lafayette??? Noooooo! I have friends who live/work there!


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[barcncpt44]

Interstate 10 is now being closed across Western Louisiana.

 

[BayouWeatherGeek]

Interstate 10 is now being closed across Western Louisiana.

Anyone in southwestern LA who didn't evacuate is pretty much stuck now.

 

[Jetstream]

This will be one to watch as long as it operates, south of Cameron La.

 

[BayouWeatherGeek]

TWC just showed the power going out in Cameron, LA.

 

[Mr. Clark]

TWC just showed the power going out in Cameron, LA.

Earlier today I saw a comment that Cameron might not exist after tonight. That is a bit hyperbolic, but I hope everyone got out.

 

[Kory]

Earlier today I saw a comment that Cameron might not exist after tonight. That is a bit hyperbolic, but I hope everyone got out.

That’s what happened to Indianola, Texas.

 

[Jetstream]

Showers popping up here in west central Al

 

[BayouWeatherGeek]

That’s what happened to Indianola, Texas.

Indianola got raked by two majors nearly ten years apart, after which the survivors basically said screw it and abandoned the town. Hopefully that fate doesn't befall Cameron.

 

[TornadoFan]

Hunters are headed back into the eye. Let's hope the pressure has stopped falling.

 

[Jacob]

Are we getting a little dry air into the core now? There's no eyewall on the southern side, and the eye is ever so slightly more "ragged" on satellite now.

 

[Kory]

Are we getting a little dry air into the core now? There's no eyewall on the southern side, and the eye is ever so slightly more "ragged" on satellite now.

That's radar attenuation...the radar beam can't see the other side of the eyewall. There's no dry air intrusion. That "ragged" look is mesovortices within the eyewall.

 

[Jacob]

That's radar attenuation...the radar beam can't see the other side of the eyewall. There's no dry air intrusion. That "ragged" look is mesovortices within the eyewall.

I thought that initially as well, but it has the same presentation from Houston's radar too.

 

[Casie]

Why aren't any live chasers online? Are they waiting for the worst of it to save on battery power?

 

[Kory]

I thought that initially as well, but it has the same presentation from Houston's radar too.

Yeah, this isn't weakening. At all.

 

[Kory]

I'm beginning to wonder if some of the high rises in Lake Charles survive.

 

[barcncpt44]

I'm beginning to wonder if some of the high rises in Lake Charles survive.

I'm worried about this big bridge on I-10 in Lake Charles.

 

[Kory]

I'm worried about this big bridge on I-10 in Lake Charles.

I’ve driven over that thing. Scariest bridge I’ve been on besides the old Huey P Long in NOLA. Zero room for error or you’re off the guard rails.

 

[bjdeming]

Lots of people (self included) hate it when storms come through at night, let alone something like Laura.

So it was really thoughtful for the experts to share this for all the folks out there who aren't weather geeks and are in the affected area:

 

[warneagle]

Confirmed tornado in Cameron Parish