Updating maps: Twin storms may overlap on Gulf Coast!

[SteveG]

Another memorable 2020 moment.
Pretty amazing. Storms Marco and Laura predicted to hit along adjacent, or maybe the same, areas of the Gulf Coast within a short time of one another.
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[STL]

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[PeterB]

Already posted a few down. Interesting that if they "flirt" (as some news outlets are calling it), it's more likely they'll weaken each other rather than strengthen. Fujiwhara effect. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nati...410073001/

[MrNoBody]

Already posted a few down.

Must have missed the post with the NOAA auto-updating advisories.
Thanks Steve G., I really should bookmark that NOAA page.

[SteveG]

I should have noticed this earlier, but it appears Laura will go the entire length of the island of Cuba as well as hitting Dominica.

[Diana]

If the models hold it looks like they’ll hit 24hrs apart from one another. Not fun times in the Gulf.

[NewtonMP2100]

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[PeterB]

Diana wrote:
If the models hold it looks like they’ll hit 24hrs apart from one another. Not fun times in the Gulf.

Yup. As I was saying, this doesn't have to be a Cat 3 to cause significant problems for us... I predict another S&WB disaster...

[Ombligo]

Peter - What is S&WB?

These will be flooding events rather than wind. Marco will push water atop a midnight high tide along the Louisanna coast and then Laura will drive more atop that the next day.

[PeterB]

Sewerage and Water Board. They operate and maintain the pumps that drain the city, but are notorious for, amongst other things: having terribly outdated equipment that doesn't work half the time, resulting in streets flooding even just with a thunderstorm; failing to announce to residents with sufficient notice of water outages or boil advisories; having malfunctioning software for which they spent millions of dollars, which ends up giving residents outrageous and completely inaccurate bills (some over $20,000); and being a literal cesspool of corruption, graft, and incompetence. Oh, and did I forget to mention their involvement in/failure during Katrina? Unfortunately, they're also outside the purview of government; they exist as pretty much a separate entity such that the city council has really no control over them.