Random Chaos
(Weather Analyst)
Sat Aug 27 2005 05:53 PM
Re: New Orleans Prepares for Katrina

Quote:

Katrina is starting to enter the area of deep warm water to the west of her, this afternoon, and will be travelling over it throughout the evening.



Yeah, and the warmest water in the gulf will be beneath it just before landfall:

http://moe.met.fsu.edu/cyclonephase/gfs/fcst/archive/05082712/10.html

Scroll down to the bottom on the link to see water temps. Don't pay attention to the storm strength parts of that graphic - GFS isn't good at forcasting tropical system intensity at all - it just doesn't have the resolution. I picked GFS becuase it was the newest of the graphics on that site, and shows a path very close to the one the NHC is predicting.


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