The August Flood of 2016

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Meteorologists here in Houston are calling for a High pressure here in Texas that will steer whatever this becomes, if anything, into the Florida panhandle.

Well "Hurricane" is a deceiving topic. This thing is far from a hurricane and is not even labeled a tropical depression or tropical storm yet. It's simply a disorganized group of storms. Invest-L99 they call it. Boy the weather channel is just hoping for a named storm to impact the gulf coast for ratings.
However we don't need the rain from it if it gets here.

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Originally Posted by UL_Cajuns

Well "Hurricane" is a deceiving topic. This thing is far from a hurricane and is not even labeled a tropical depression or tropical storm yet. It's simply a disorganized group of storms. Invest-L99 they call it. Boy the weather channel is just hoping for a named storm to impact the gulf coast for ratings.
However we don't need the rain from it if it gets here.

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Boomer started the thread called "Hurricane" I just grabbed every post related to the topic and moved them to Boomers thread. Because they predate, it only looks like Helmet started the tread.

This is a great link to all kinds of weather stuff. It is updated frewuently.


http://www.spaghettimodels.com/

The slower this storm moves the better it is for all of us, including Florida. As poorly developed as it is now, a path over Florida would be way less devastating that what we saw a couple weeks ago. Meteorologist predicting 3-5" of rain to Florida if that happens. If it goes into the Gulf, hold on to your hats.

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Originally Posted by HelmutVII

This is a great link to all kinds of weather stuff. It is updated frewuently.


http://www.spaghettimodels.com/

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Everything you need to track storms is there.

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Originally Posted by HelmutVII

See the note on the site that said "peak of 19.31 on 8/13/2016 determined from high water mark". That's telling me the water level on the 13th and 14th was higher than the gage could measure and the peak was 19.31). The datum for this gage is MSL (That is 0.0 on the gage is 0.0 Mean Sea Level MSL by North American Vertical Datum, NAVD 1988.) So a reading on this gage can be directly correlated any elevation based on the same datum. This is unlike the Surrey Street gage that is off by 2.76 feet (0.0 on the gage is 2.76 feet MSL NAVD 88). That's why sometimes the gage readings may not jive if you don't know this.

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Thanks. Got it now but its showing a high water mark of 19.91 ft. The median is 2.20 feet. So if I'm reading this correctly, and I think I am, the river rose 17.71 feet above its normal level at the E. Broussard bridge!

It's an annual challenge for the Gueydan Bears' football team anyway.http://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/ea85...016---3568.jpg
 

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August 27th, 2016, 06:54 pm

Ragin4U

Re: Hurricane

Water in the GOM is very warm. Once the storm get out of the Florida Strait and into the deeper warmer waters, we might see some strengthening. But the model runs are looking much better, for those who actually think computer models have value.