2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Running Thread

Not great, but 2-4 feet is quite a bit better than catching high tide plus surge.

 

Wow. The high clouds we're starting to get today is the leading edge of Delta. That's a big-un.

 

Louisiana catching another 7-11 foot storm surge looks ugly though.

 

Give Trump a Sharpie and he'll divert this thing to Kansas.

 

We have five local high school football teams. Four of them have moved their games to tonight to beat the worst of the weather (we're already getting some sprinkles, so they'll probably still be rain games, but at least they won't be playing in a literal hurricane).
And then one school is like Lieutenant Dan on top of the shrimp boat, screaming at God to bring it on and insisting on playing Friday night. They begrudgingly moved the kickoff time from 7 to 5:30, but that's as far as they'll go. I'm thinking that one might be a call-in, fellas.

 

"The captain has informed us we are cleared for landing in Morgan City. Please stow all electronic devices and return your seatbacks to their original upright position."

During the next 12-24 h, Delta should turn to the north between a mid- to upper-level ridge over the Florida Peninsula and eastern Gulf of Mexico and a mid- to upper-level level trough over the U.S. Southern Plains. This should be followed by a north-northeastward motion that is expected to bring the center near or over the northern Gulf coast, most likely in southwestern Louisiana, in about 36 h. After landfall, the cyclone should move northeastward through the Lower Mississippi and Tennessee Valleys along the southern edge of the mid-latitude westerlies until it dissipates.

 

There are worse things, but wrecking a new pair of shoes while standing in four inches of water on a soggy football sideline on a Friday night is not one of my favorite memories of covering sporting events.

 

Irony:
Hurricane Delta is going to trash the Mississippi Delta.

 

FTFY

 

It might even pass over Delta State University, which is home to a chapter of the Delta Delta Delta sorority.

 

And maybe the jankiest college press box I've ever sat in.