The link above gives data from buoy 42003 (right above the map's legend). At time of posting they're having 34 foot wave heights there. Not bad. This is the FL map. The other maps are LA-MS and West Gulf, among others. You hit the buoys' numbers for the data.
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Clinging to guns and God: Bar owner Joann Guidos has a cache of guns to protect her place from looters who roam a city emptied by evacuations ahead of Hurricane Gustav. Guidos has a pistol, a knife and an assortment of guns in her house next door to the bar, including a sniper's rifle. "I haven't shot anybody yet, but if I have to, I will. You have a lot of real idiots in this city," she said. Good thing Pepe is not going to that bar. It's not for Versaillists.
I sat out a pretty good storm in NO. Wasn't that bad but the thing missed. I'm not bitter.
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Looks like AI is right and Gustav will be a dud in New Orleans proper: Rain started falling in New Orleans before sunset, and tropical storm force winds reached the southeastern tip of the state. The first hurricane force winds were due to arrive after midnight and reach Category 3 force — from 111 to 130 mph — at the point where Gustav's center makes landfall west of the city.
New Orleans will likely be on the "dirty" side of the storm — where rainfall is heaviest and tornadoes are possible. But if the city is east of where Gustav's eye crosses, the storm surge would be lower than if the city took a direct hit, reducing the chances of flooding. If forecasts hold, the city would experience lower winds and a storm surge of only 4 to 6 feet, compared to a storm surge of 10 to 14 feet at the site of landfall, said Corey Walton, a hurricane support meteorologist with the National Hurricane Center.
By comparison, Katrina brought a storm surge of 25 feet.
Surge models suggest large areas of southeast Louisiana, including parts of the greater New Orleans area, could be flooded by several feet of water. But Gustav appears most likely to overwhelm the levees west of the city that have for decades been underfunded and neglected and are years from an update.
Cool buoy sites.
Yes, I like the data buoys too. I imagine what it must be like out there no one around.
35 meters per second is about 78 miles per hour
Ah, Data. Get thee to the Statisticians!
Or, Get thee into an Excel spreadsheet! Looks like it's ready to dump into GIS for manipulation, too.
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