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Other than Isaac hitting Louisiana as a hurricane, (unlike Irene) this season has been relatively uneventful for the US.
I didn’t see any evidence of hurricane force winds hitting the US during Issac
Isaac was much more tightly wound than Irene, and oil rigs offshore reported sustained hurricane force winds. Also, if you look at radar before landfall, you can see that there was a meso within Isaac’s eye, meaning that the storm was tightening before landfall, Irene had nothing of the sort, and Irene was relatively dry on the southern side of the eyewall, most of the moisture was located north of the circulation. An oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico near the center of Isaac reported a wind gust of 106 MPH, the sustained winds needed to produce a wind gust like that are well above the threshold of 74 MPH.
Offshore is not landfall.
It is amazing the way that the peak winds of Irene and Isaac both danced around every weather station.
When you consider that it produced a wind gust of 106 MPH offshore of Louisiana and the fact that on radar you see within the very large eye of Isaac, a smaller meso feature within the eye as Isaac was making landfall, you know Isaac is tightening up due to frictional effects of land, thus the wind speeds are increasing. Unlike Irene, Isaac was a true hurricane.
There were no hurricane force winds recorded by land-based stations.
“Offshore is not landfall” This is clear evidence of hurricane force winds within Isaac’s eyewall. When you actually look at radar loops of Isaac, you clearly see a meso feature within its eye as it is coming ashore, meaning that it was tightening and strengthening up to landfall, and was likely stronger at landfall as opposed to when the 106 MPH wind gust was reported when it was offshore.
Irene was a major hurricane shortly before landfall. That did change the fact that at landfall it was not a hurricane.
Isaac was the opposite of Irene, Irene was weakening upon landfall, Isaac was strengthening
Ahh, that explains the lack of hurricane force winds seen at any land based stations.
I seriously doubt any wind gusts of offshore with Irene were way up to 106 MPH, when you have winds like that, even if they are offshore, somebody clearly saw hurricane force winds. Kind of hard to have land based stations where Isaac made landfall when that area is a Wildlife Preserve
A wind gust of 106 MPH offshore tells you how strong Isaac really was, and there is no way Isaac could have possibly weakened so much that the sustained winds came down below hurricane force, not when you see that the storm is tightening up to landfall.
All those lying wind gauges
Lying windgauges? Nice try, not a good excuse Steve
Please stop http://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/issac-makes-landfall-with-45mph-winds/
Gosh Eric it would not be hard for YOU to prove that there were actual hurricane winds on the mainland but you never tried to show it just babble a lot and hope you wear us down with it.
LOL
That’s alot of butterfly wings causing alot of misery. Maybe we should just wipe out all butterflies, and get rid of hurricanes altogether.
Our last two storms coming in from the north pacific hit 130 MPH and 103 MPH but we don’t call them hurricanes here in Alaska.
The weather station data Steven refers to for Isaac are our eyes and ears and there were not hurricane force winds at anytime along the gulf land-based stations.
If there is one, please do point to it…