2024 Hurricane Season

[zephyr]

Jim Cantore, stay the hell out of Lafayette!!!

[alum81]

Jim Cantore, stay the hell out of Lafayette!!!

That guy is nothing but trouble.

[Turbine]

Organized low pressure with rotation is a cyclone, meteorologically. Hurricane, typhoon, willy willy are all just local vernacular for the same thing.

I guess when I was growing up "Organized low pressure with rotation" rain storms weren't news worthy.

[Big Tyme]

I guess when I was growing up "Organized low pressure with rotation" rain storms weren't news worthy.

If the "Organized low pressure with rotation" rain storms have winds of 74 mph or greater they are.

[Turbine]

If the "Organized low pressure with rotation" rain storms have winds of 74 mph or greater they are.

I'm not troubled by what it is or isn't.

When I was growing up, "cyclone" was not used by local weathermen to describe developing or upcoming storms.

[HelmutVII]

I'm not troubled by what it is or isn't.

When I was growing up, "cyclone" was not used by local weathermen to describe developing or upcoming storms.

The technical term for a low pressure area ( no matter where it is ) is indeed cyclone. The technical term for a high pressure area is anti-cyclone.

[Big Tyme]

What dat, dat cy-clone?

[HelmutVII]

Dave Baker. Acadiana weather today on YouTube. Very indepth discussion.

https://www.youtube.com/live/QJSQ2vi...da9HQm8oPjWwR7

[Cajun90]

Latest raw data is not good. Francine is trying to ramp up faster than expected. That could lead to Rapid Intensification. Predictions are for some dry air and shear to hit the system right before landfall. Hopefully that will help but I suspect Acadiana is about to get hammered hard with this one. Hope I'm wrong.

[ZoomZoom]

Actually, there was a big physical signal this was coming here over a week ago. A tree company parked 3 trucks in the Walmart lot on Ambassador week ago.

[VObserver]

Organized low pressure with rotation is a cyclone, meteorologically. Hurricane, typhoon, willy willy are all just local vernacular for the same thing.

Only in the Northern Hemisphere. In the Southern hemisphere a low pressure system creates an anti-cyclone.

[Cajun90]

Actually, there was a big physical signal this was coming here over a week ago. A tree company parked 3 trucks in the Walmart lot on Ambassador week ago.

When Hurricane Lili hit I was headed home from work and a NOAA van loaded with instruments was pulled up in the field across from my house....not a good feeling.

Having worked in Disaster services I can tell you deployments are on going right now in both the public and private sectors. Assets will typically be deployed within a couple of hours of the expected landfall area. Its about to get real...