Officially made landfall . It hasnt made landfall yet and looks like maybe 20 miles. But im not sure if plaquemans pair rish will have landfall. Its hard to defect where the eye is with a satellite, but ill show you with radar. Interesting to note still 90 Miles Per Hour sustained winds, strong category 1. Doubtful to make it to 2. It only needs another 6 Miles Per Hour up to 96 total to be a category 2. A lot of dry air is trying to infiltrate the system, which is good news. We want to see this break down quickly. You notice right in the center, youll see a burst of purple here. Its trying to strengthen somewhat. Thats a batch of heavy activity near the center. Here is the eye. Its hard to see because we do not have much in the way of rainfall to the west of the center and southwest. Thats good news, too. Because this is a fastmoving system, one, they just do not like to move this fast because they cant rapidly intensify and when they move this fast, it keeps your rain totals to a min
of characteristics. this one asymmetrical, what does that mean, all the wind is piled up on the eastern side of the eye wall, the eye wall that s trying to form. so, depending on where this eye makes landfall, it is again a game of miles here for hurricane nate. if you re on the eastern side of that particular storm, of this particular storm, that s where you re going to see the strongest winds and the highest surge. if you re on the western side of the storm, the direction will be coming offshore and you might not have the storm surge and you might not have strong of winds either. so it really is a game of miles here. you re looking behind me at one of the mean piers or jetties that was destroyed within hurricane katrina back in 2005 but now rebuilt. there are numbers of these. waves here aren t so bad but the only reason is because we have the gulf port harbor just to my right. that s actually protect some of the stronger waves from battering this particular area.