Current Hurricane Katrina Information & Images

Notice how the red is darker near the Louisiana and Ms. coastline indicating warmer water temps, this will help the storm strengthen (at least that's what the experts on TV are claiming ) as it approaches the coast. The image in from the US Navy's website.

 

Here is Accuweather's take on the situation:

Today's Discussion
Today's Discussion Posted: August 27, 2005 11:35 p.m.



A hurricane warning is now in effect from Morgan City, LA to the
Alamaba-Florida border. A hurricane watch and tropical storm warning is in effect from the Alabama-Florida border east to Destin, Fl and from west of Morgan City to Intracoastal City, LA.

Hurricane Katrina, as of 10 p.m. CDT, was centered near 25.0 north and 86.2 west. This is about 335 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River. Maximum sustained winds are 115 mph with gusts to 140 mph, making Katrina a Category 3 hurricane. Katrina is moving west-northwest at about 7 mph and has a minimum central pressure of 939 mb, or 27.73 inches. Tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 160 miles from the storm's center, while hurricane force winds have a radius of nearly 45 miles.

We feel more confident that Katrina is beginning to make the Great Arc the north that will cause the powerful hurricane to take aim on the north-central Gulf coast. After reviewing water vapor loops over the Gulf of Mexico, we continue to see evidence that an upper ridge of high pressure to the north of Katrina is weakening and that this trend will continue.

Katrina remains a Category 3 hurricane but it is continuing to strengthen as it's central pressure falls. Hurricane hunter aircraft report that the eye is closed but still somewhat ragged. The hurricane should track across a deep and warm layer of water over the central Gulf; and with little to no upper-level wind shear across the entire Gulf, intensification will occur. Katrina should become a Category 4 hurricane Sunday and could even reach Category 5 intensity before Monday morning.

The track of and the second landfall for Katrina depends on a continued weakening of an upper ridge of high pressure over the Southeast, a digging upper level trough of low pressure over the Midwest, and a building ridge of high pressure east of Florida. we feel that these 3 factors will combine to steer Katrina on a more west-northwest track Saturday night followed by a northwest track Sunday and then a north track Sunday night and Monday. The most recent computer models show a consensus track over southeast Louisiana. Our latest thinking is that Katrina will make landfall near noon Monday over extreme southeastern Louisiana. Conditions will begin to deteriorate later Sunday, well in advance of the storm, with tropical-storm-force winds reaching the coast Sunday afternoon and hurricane-force winds reaching the coast Monday morning. The winds will be strong enough to down not only trees and power lines but also bring down structures and make missiles out of unsecured objects. As the storm nears the coast Monday, a devastating storm surge will be pushed into the lower Mississippi Delta as the powerful southeasterly winds pile water into the area. The storm will also bring flooding rains well inland, and the risk for tornadoes north and east of the path of the center.

Elsewhere in the tropics Saturday, a tropical wave along 40 west, south of 18 north, is moving west at 10-15 knots. A tropical low pressure system is now located near 20 north and 53 west; this is in an area with too much shear for development now, but as the shear weakens over the next 24-48 hours, the low could become a tropical depression. This low is moving northwest at 10 knots; no threat to land in the immediate future. Another tropical wave along 90 west, south of 19 north, is moving west at 15 knots.

http://hurricane.accuweather.com/hurricane/regions.asp

 

We're not allowed to die without permission. :yelwink2:

 

http://orca.rsmas.miami.edu/wximages/jet/1_05/anis.html

Looks like a bowling ball making it's way down the lane! :shock:

 

It's officially time for everyone in South Louisiana and Mississippi to take this storm seriously.

Katrina is now 160 mph! Pressure is down to 910 mb. Badass Camille recorded a pressure of 909 mb.

Let's hope this storm slides to the east of New Orleans and weakens before landfall...

 

Here she comes and she doesn't look happy. Pray !

 

Any of you contemplating staying because of the unimpressive images you have seen on the weather channel with other hurricanes, don’t do it. I saw what Camille did to my uncle’s home and boats. You don’t want to be there. The best way to protect your families and homes is to live. Get out of there. You have my prayers either way.

 

MarineTiger, I order you to make your way north. Don't make me drive down there Marine.

 

MT ARE YOU LISTENING?

http://intellicast.com/Local/USNationalStd.asp?loc=usa&seg=StormCenter&prodgrp=Tropical&product=AtlanticAdvisory&prodnav=none


REPORTS FROM AN AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT INDICATE THAT
THE MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED TO NEAR 175 MPH...WITH
HIGHER GUSTS. KATRINA IS A POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC CATEGORY FIVE
HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. SOME FLUCTUATIONS IN
STRENGTH ARE LIKELY DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

I believe Camille was 909 MB

THE AIR FORCE HURRICANE HUNTER PLANE RECENTLY MEASURED A MINIMUM
CENTRAL PRESSURE OF 907 MB...26.78 INCHES.

COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 18 TO 22 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE
LEVELS...LOCALLY AS HIGH AS 28 FEET ALONG WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS
BATTERING WAVES...CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF WHERE THE
CENTER MAKES LANDFALL.

 

No response by MT, hopefully that is a good sign menaing he's left.