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Tropical Hurricane Ida

18z GFS looks a tick northeast of the 12z run through 30 hours. Still definitely playing catch-up on the pressure numbers. Let’s see where this ends up.
 
I heard that to from a local Meteo here.
Also the orientation of the ridge is important as well. I’m not saying that the ridge isn’t strong… all I’m saying is that we’ve seen hints of it breaking down and shift east a bit sooner. Again I don’t think it will make much of a difference in terms of landfall as central to se Louisiana appears to be set. Where we could see the difference is a further east inland track Tuesday-Thursday.
 
It would take a massive colossal collapse of a mega ridge to get this east like some of you think. Can it slide east of NOLA maybe but that's the extent of it and most likely won't happen
Your right. Although, I'm not expecting a big shift east at all but I can see little east of NOLA closer to the MS line. Which would put my area and Mobile in the danger zone more.
 
Also the orientation of the ridge is important as well. I’m not saying that the ridge isn’t strong… all I’m saying is that we’ve seen hints of it breaking down and shift east a bit sooner. Again I don’t think it will make much of a difference in terms of landfall as central to se Louisiana appears to be set. Where we could see the difference is a further east inland track Tuesday-Thursday.

And if you look at the forecast cone. The NHC leaves the door open for a more east shift. A track through north Georgia into the upstate would change things for some vs a Track into Tennessee. Something to watch


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I have fallen behind reading all the posts, but a lot of discussion of the storm going east or west of NO. Obviously if the storm is west of NO, that is very bad as the surge and worst of the wind potentially can be devastating.

However, correct me if I am wrong (and I’m sure someone will) Katrina, while very close to NO, was actually slightly east of NO and it was the heavy rain, coupled with wind coming from the N and NE which caused the levees to fail which flooded that bowl New Orleans sits in and created the major issues … more so than the actual eye wall … which nailed Biloxi and surrounding areas.

Either way, this is a dangerous storm and I pray people there take it seriously. My point is if the storm takes a similar path to Katrina AND the levees hold this time, NO will come out relatively ok compared to Katrina. (If someone has said the same thing, please forgive me!)
Really the only person continuously wishcasting this thing east right now it BirdManDoom….and he’s just cherry picking TwitterBook posts. Everyone is pretty much on the same page….it’s unknown if this is a NOLA hit or slightly west….in the end, it won’t matter much.
 
I will say it now….so you can reference back to it. Models will underestimate and breakdown the ridge way too soon….they always do, in every season, every pattern….this is no different.
 
I worked the aftermath of Katrina.
A 28' surge came in at biloxi. Katrina had weakened to a 3 but kept it's 5 surge.
It's "possible" that this could do the same if it gets to that level and slows.

I pray people get out of Idas way. This isn't one to "ride out".
 
I agree. I personally don’t see the landfall shifting east of New Orleans, but I do think that we could see a sharper turn to the NE and east once once inland.
I wonder if we could possibly get a track like this one. It dropped a ton of rain in parts of NC and SC along with a few tornadoes as it passed by.
 
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