| Psyber |
| (Storm Tracker) |
| Fri Aug 25 2017 08:44 PM |
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Re: Hurricane Harvey Strengthening and Approaching Texas
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As stated above, buoys are *not* typically 'placed' in advance to capture the areas of maximum sustained winds, and also tend to have a low bias, regardless, a result of their using an 8-min average, rather than the standard 1-min average.
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It's a good question as to why they don't build a better matrix of buoys in the Gulf as they could provide continuous surface level data...something a H/H will never be able to provide. It's been 13 years since a big hit though so investment in infrastructure always seems to be forgotten once the sting goes away.
UPDATE> Did you see the tracking? Even the vaunted NHC track is garbage for days on this one. Scary stuff given on how long it's going to keep churning. At least it appears to be mostly over land while it dumps. Could you imagine it being stuck half on/half off over a port city or *shudder* New Orleans?
It looks to be going to be stuck at a lvl 3 or weak 4. I'm usually a "let's weather this out" kind of person but anybody foolhardy enough to sit under what could be three feet of rain AND storm surge is psycho.
The SST's where it's currently feeding are 87F and with little sheer, this could get worse.