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Live View of Hurricane Laura
- acomjean 6y agoNOAA generally has good coverage of US Storms (of all sorts) Here is the satelite: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/floater.php?stormid=AL132020 https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/floater.php?stormid=AL... lots of maps and such updated frequently "Unsurvivable Storm Surge" yikes. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/031757.shtml?key_messages#contents https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at3+shtml/031757.s... "Maximum sustained winds are near 150 mph (240 km/h) with higher gusts. No significant change in strength is likely before landfall. Rapid weakening is expected after Laura moves inland."[1] [1]https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/270253.shtml https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT3+shtml/270253...?
- elihu 6y agoWow. Apparently a category four is 130-156 mph sustained, and category 5 is anything over that. https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutsshws.php
- WalterGR 6y agoFYI the updates are pretty old - nearly 12 hours by this point. Laura is projected to be a Cat 4 hurricane at landfall.
- xbmcuser 6y agoJust 1-2 days ago someone posted an article that if a bad hurricane hits Houston area it will be like Chernobyl because of all the oil and chemicals stored in the area. Now the hurricane seems to be heading there. Man this year 2020 keeps on giving.
- gremlinsinc 6y agoMy wife said today, if someone wrote a movie about 2020, it'd be unbelievable, nobody would buy it.... well until next year anyways.
- vmception 6y agoFiction has to fit conventions. Truth does not.
- claydavisss 6y agoThe very worst of 2020 is meaningfully better than all of human history before 1900.
- Larrikin 6y agoOn a different but similar note. If the exact movie Contagion, shot for shot, had come out next year everybody would hate it for basically being a slight exaggeration and following the news too closely with barely any originality.
- iso947 6y agoPandemic seems to be the most popular board game of the year. I don’t have figures for beer, but I suspect corona is doing well too.
- tyingq 6y agoIt's headed towards Lake Charles, LA. Houston is getting just the outside edge.
- xbmcuser 6y agoIt's a category 4 even outside edge will be bad
- tyingq 6y agoLast I looked, 20mph winds and a 2 foot surge for Houston. That's basically "tropical storm". Lake Charles is facing something much, much, worse.
- vmception 6y agodoubt. wake me up if it changes paths and the eye wall hits and hovers over, without weakening.
- btmiller 6y agoThe east side of the hurricane is typically the dirty part. The west side will be spared most of the destruction. But it’s only narrowly going to miss Houston. Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Lake Charles are in for a very, very terrible night.
- LargoLasskhyfv 6y agoWhy is that? Coriolis? Northern Hemisphere?
- BurningFrog 6y agoPrediction: It won't be like Chernobyl.
- avmich 6y agoOh thanks :) now I can sleep safely and soundly.
- andbberger 6y agoWhy?
- BurningFrog 6y agoSome things only happen once.
- andbberger 6y agoOK so you're just spit-balling and have no actual reason to think this?
- nilkn 6y agoIt’s narrowly sparing Houston. The biggest risk to Houston at this point is probably mass power outages but even that is looking unlikely. Thousands of homes are likely to still be destroyed along the coast. If the dice had rolled just slightly differently, tonight would have been a decade defining event as a major US city was destroyed. We just barely scraped by and avoided that fate.
- badrabbit 6y agoWorse than harvey?
- ls612 6y agoYeah I was about to say they got hit hard in Houston three years ago and seem to have recovered fine.
- shiftpgdn 6y agoHarvey was a much smaller slower hurricane that destroyed tens of thousands of homes due to flooding and was one of the most expensive hurricanes EVER. Houston would be in big trouble with a fast direct hit from a cat 5, largely due to lax building codes.
- ls612 6y agoHarvey came ashore a category 4 storm then proceeded to loiter over Houston for days with hurricane force winds. I don’t see how it gets much worse than that.
- cryptoz 6y agoYa'll probably know this but I'm very interested in tracking Laura as she landfalls using specifically barometers in phones. I do this with All Clear: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearweather.android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.allclearwe... (US android app), source code I write for the clever 'background' sensor data on Android here [1] and animation of the non-landfalling Hurricane Dorian last year as viewed from phones in Eastern Florida [2] I think with Laura landfalling and travelling across the US for a while, there should be a lot of interesting and maybe useful surface-pressure readings to be had. Stay safe if you are anywhere near this hurricane. It is ...unprecedented. [1] https://github.com/JacobSheehy/AllClearSensorLibrary https://github.com/JacobSheehy/AllClearSensorLibrary [2] https://www.allclearweather.com/hurricane-dorian https://www.allclearweather.com/hurricane-dorian Also I suppose it's important to shoutout /r/tropicalweather, just about the best community on reddit. Their megathreads and links are always useful. https://reddit.com/r/tropicalweather https://reddit.com/r/tropicalweather
- purple-again 6y agoWhat is unprecedented about this hurricane?
- cryptoz 6y agoThe extreme rapid intensification over the last 24-36 hours is record setting I believe. And presently it is still strengthening and will potentially set many records - I suppose I shouldn't speak too soon with 'unprecedented' but all signs indicate this will be an extreme event.
- xwdv 6y agoGod, it’d be incredible if this became a Category 6 in 2020. Hurricane Dorian almost hit that milestone.
- cryptoz 6y agoFWIW there is no official category 6, as 5 is deemed as essentially total destruction and there isn't much need for a 6. It's a topic of debate however. Also Laura may reach a minimal category 5 but is unlikely to intensify past baseline 5 status.
- apsec112 6y agoThis isn't live at all. It's based on the ECMWF/GFS models, which are updated every six hours, and are estimates rather than raw observations. For actual live data, you can see a live feed from the Hurricane Hunters recon aircraft (updated every ten minutes) here: https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/recon/ https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/recon/
- nouveaux 6y agoCan someone explain what I'm looking at here? Thanks!
- xwdv 6y agoYou are looking at what will soon be the destruction of thousands of people’s homes by a powerful category 4 hurricane, as a relentless pandemic continues to hold the nation in its grip.
- apsec112 6y agoMSLP = mean sea level pressure, lower means a stronger storm SFMR = instrument to measure winds on the ground/ocean, which are usually weaker than at the plane's altitude kts = knots = multiply by 1.15 to get wind speeds in miles per hour dropsonde = thing they drop out of the plane to measure wind, temperature, and pressure at different altitudes as it falls Here's how to read wind barbs: http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/info/about_windbarb.html http://weather.rap.ucar.edu/info/about_windbarb.html
- maxerickson 6y agoThe blob tracks pretty close to radar. https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/full_lite_loop.php https://radar.weather.gov/ridge/Conus/full_lite_loop.php
- qqqwerty 6y agoYou can also follow live streams from storm chasers: https://livestormchasing.com/map https://livestormchasing.com/map https://www.pscp.tv/w/1lDGLykXqvLJm https://www.pscp.tv/w/1lDGLykXqvLJm
- avmich 6y agoDoes anybody work on how to extract energy from hurricanes? A pretty powerful wind turbine...
- BbzzbB 6y agoDon't see how that could be viable/worth it without significant battery peaker capacity installed.
- robjan 6y agoThat's basically how offshore windfarms work. Electricity generation firms place wind turbines offshore where there is usually stronger wind. Having windfarms specifically for hurricanes wouldn't be viable since hurricanes strike infrequently and in different locations.
- avmich 6y agoWell, maybe you need mobile devices. Or, more exotic, a way to influence the hurricane path...
- samatman 6y agoThis is an amusing variant on the perennial favourite, how to extract energy from lightning strikes. I haven't seen this question asked about tsunamis, earthquakes, or volcanic eruptions. But it's only a matter of time.
- ra 6y agoThere's a better link. Windy.com has a hurricane tracker view: https://www.windy.com/-Hurricane-tracker/hurricanes?gustAccu,28.800,-101.889,5,i:pressure https://www.windy.com/-Hurricane-tracker/hurricanes?gustAccu...
- shmerl 6y agoIs it supposed to have completely black background?
- rendall 6y agoThat is a beautiful app, and internationalization is ideal. If Ivo and team read HN, great job!
- mercer 6y agoI didn't want to noise up the comments, but the first thing I noticed is that the site worked fine even with uBlock Origin turned on. That's a rare sight! Compliments from me too.
- daxfohl 6y agoLooks like it is affecting wind patterns blowing outward all the way to Minnesota and Wyoming. Or are those streams normal?
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- totetsu 6y agoLooks like it will make landfall right on top of a hazardous wastes management plant. https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ecoserv/@29.7813554,-93.3372794,361m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m10!1m2!2m1!1smonkey+island+cameron+new+orleans!3m6!1s0x863c698f5763d2d7:0xc406ceb9a4dd8203!8m2!3d29.7825049!4d-93.3334581!11m1!2e1 https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ecoserv/@29.7813554,-93.33...
- chrisco255 6y agoThere are tons of oil refineries and chemical plants in that area. I hope they built them to withstand these kind of winds.
- tmikaeld 6y agoWindy has a satellite view of the hurricane here: https://www.windy.com/sv/-Satellit-satellite?satellite,29.071,-91.741,7 https://www.windy.com/sv/-Satellit-satellite?satellite,29.07... Hit play button to see progress from last hour to current.
- algorithmsRcool 6y agoI've always liked https://earth.nullschool.net/ https://earth.nullschool.net/ If you click the button in the bottom left, it has a lot of features for viewing things like Wind speed, Wave Height, Atmospheric particulates and even Aroura activity.