Hurricane Laura

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Re: Hurricane Laura

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Nearly at 100 knot gusts at that Calcasieu water ob
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Inner eyewall still lightning active on touch down. Laura has matured all the way to landfall. Mesovortices asymmetrically bending the eye.
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Cyclone Tracy wrote: Thu 27/08/2020 17:04 Link to the ground zero NOAA weather ob at Lake Charles airport Louisiana. https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/getobext.php?sid=KLCH
Lake Charles airport clocked 132 mph - then likely blew apart. No longer reporting.
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The haunting 'Aeolian sound' of a major Hurricane.

https://twitter.com/willnunley/status/1 ... 2826972160
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The undisputed king of tropical cyclone chasing nails another eye.

https://twitter.com/iCyclone/status/1298890659567370240
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He's gone to retrieve his sound sensor, been gone for a while now. Backside of the eyewall is not far away.......and he's back to now chase storm surge. All the best with that in Louisiana.
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Radar at Lake Charles post the hurricane:
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It's last scan
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Tim Marshall who I think is a meteorologist and expert structural engineer, recently retired from a career evaluating structures (and arguably may be the most experienced person at evaluating storm damage), has posted a few pics from Lake Charles...
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classic obs data for direct hit
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As expected, significant storm surge damage on the direct hit coastal town of Cameron.
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looks like the building are built for flooding (i.e raised a lot)
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