TROPICAL STORM ISAAC Discussion Thread #10

Do any of u guys have a general idea of when they will start contr flow. I want to leave before that starts. Cannot leave now because I have not been released from work.

I don't know if you would call that a wobble, but yes, there is a northerly component on the radar.

looks like H is building on top fighting off that ULL

Microwave imagery of Isaac.

tropic.ssec.wisc.edu/real-time/mimic-tc/2012_09L/webManager/basicGifDisplay.html

that northerly component is the MLC. The LLC is still well to the south. M/W imagery suggests possibly a new LLC may be trying to develop under the MLC like I mentioned earlier.

Find it hard to take this storm seriously when it looks so ragged on radar. I know it has all night and all day to get it together but just saying that it really does look like a big ole thunderstorm, although I know it is not.

The preparedness guide says 30 hours before tropical storm force winds are expected.

Phase III - 30 Hours before onset of tropical storm winds. Includes areas on the East Bank of the Mississippi
River in the New Orleans Metropolitan Area which are within levee protection system but remain vulnerable
to a slow-moving Category 3 or any Category 4 or 5 storm. These areas are depicted in YELLOW on the
Evacuation Map. During Phase III, certain routes will be directed and the Contraflow Plan implemented.

Nola.com is talking about the possibility of a "compressed contraflow"