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Hurricane
Nate Threatens New Orleans
7
October, 2017
The
image below, a forecast for October 8, 2017, run on October 7, shows
Hurricane Nate near New Orleans, with winds as fast as 83 mph or 134
km/h (at 850 mb) and up to 5.33 in or 135.4 mm (3-hour precipitation
accumulation) of rain (at the green circle).
Nate, the fourth major storm to strike the United States in less than two months, killed at least 30 people in Central America before entering the warm waters of the Gulf and bearing down on the U.S. South (Reuters report).
One of the biggest dangers is storm surge flooding, as illustrated by above image and the tweetbelow.
Follow
Ken Graham @wx4keg
7-11
ft storm surge on the MS Gulf Coast and open water coast in SE LA
from #Nate.
I’m 6ft 6 in. This pole is 11 ft. Some perspective.
As the world keeps warming, hurricanes are increasingly causing damage, as also discussed in arecent post.
The situation is dire a calls for comprehensive and effective action, as described at the Climate Plan.
Links
• Climate Plan
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/p/climateplan.html
• NOAA National Hurricane Center
https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
• The Arctic is Changing the Jet Stream - Why This Is Important
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-arctic-is-changing-the-jet-stream-why-this-is-important.html
• Extreme weather is upon us
https://arctic-news.blogspot.com/2017/09/extreme-weather-is-upon-us.html
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