🌪️ Preliminary survey results are in for the October 6th tornadoes that tracked across southern Tangipahoa Parish this morning. Three tornadoes have been confirmed near Tickfaw, Loranger, and South Robert with each rated EF0 to EF1. Here’s a closer look at what we found ⤵️ #lawx

NEW: NWS New Orleans confirms that 3 tornadoes touched down in Tangipahoa Parish on Monday morning: 🌪️EF-1 near the Hammond Airport 🌪️EF-0 southeast of Loranger 🌪️EF-1 south of Robert

Tropical Storm #Jerry forms over the tropical central Atlantic. Here is the Key Message.

7 years ago today, the first Category 5 Hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 1992 ripped across the beaches of the Florida Panhandle.

An interesting tidbit for the tropical nerds out there!

Cold front sweeps from NW to SE across LA later today, overnight & into Sunday AM. “Slight Risk” for severe storms … mainly over northern half of state this afternoon into the evening. Winds as primary threat but can’t totally exclude a potential for tornado(s). System

Tropics Update: Monday Morning, Oct 20 98L looks to be well on its way to becoming T.S. Melissa, the 13th 'named' storm for the Atlantic Basin and the first 'named' storm over the Caribbean.  98L/TD#13/Melissa is expected to slowly track westward over the next 3 to 5 days and

Tropics Update: Tuesday Morning, Oct 21 No tropical threats for Louisiana through the next 7+ days. 98L is likely to get the upgrade to T.S. Melissa sometime later today ... the 13th 'named' storm for the Atlantic Basin and the first 'named' storm over the Caribbean. Most of

NHC will initiate advisories on Tropical Storm Melissa (formerly AL98), located over the Caribbean Sea, at 1100 AM EDT (1500 UTC).

Tropics Update: Wednesday Morning, Oct 22 T.S. Melissa looks almost stalled over the Caribbean, with the NHC 5-day forecast (the 'cone') showing very little forward advance while the system slowly strengthens into a hurricane. The official NHC forecast has Melissa at Category

The Caribbean "warm pool" is by far the deepest/warmest reservoir of "hurricane fuel" in the Western Hemisphere w/exceptional ocean heat content supportive of Category 5 hurricane into late October. Melissa should have no trouble reaching maximum potential intensity

#Melissa is forecast by the National #Hurricane Center to become a Category 4 hurricane. If it does so, it would be the 4th of the first 5 hurricanes of 2025 to become Cat. 4+. Only 3 other times on record have 4 of the first 5 Atlantic hurricanes reached Cat 4+: 1932, 1999, 2010

Grabbed this ‘sundawg’ at about 5:40PM while heading west on Government St.

Saturday 6:50 AM: Here comes Round #1 of two expected this weekend. There is a decent chance that a break between the two rounds will accommodate the LSU and Southern games … but have the raingear ready just in case …

My goodness...special update from NHC now has maximum sustained winds up to 180 mph and pressure down to 896 mb in #Melissa. Pressure is 6th lowest on record in the Atlantic & winds tied for 6th highest on record in the basin.

LOOK AT THESE! You've probably never heard of "mesovortices," but the eyes of major/intensifying hurricanes, like Category 5 Melissa, actually contain addition, smaller whirls a few miles across. Mesovortices are a few miles across; they form as a way to balance an extreme

Almost all Major Hurricanes undergo an eyewall replacement cycle. Melissa never did. She sustained CATEGORY 5 status for 35 consecutive hours, the 8TH longest total duration of Cat 5 winds ever documented in an Atlantic Hurricane, and the longest since Hurricane Irma in 2017.

20 years after the Hurricane Season that spawned historically strong storms like Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, 2025 is now just the 2nd year on record to have THREE or more CATEGORY 5 cyclones form in the Atlantic Basin. Erin in August. Humberto in September. And Melissa in October.

Hurricane Season isn't over, but it's quickly winding down. Here's a look at first predictions vs actual. Although a large range, NOAA's forecast did pretty well. Numbers were near to slightly below normal. ACE (Accumulated Cyclone Energy) was slightly above normal. For the

The CPC released their outlooks for November and odds are Louisiana will be drier and warmer than normal. This is not surprising considering La Nina conditions are present which typically leads to drier and warmer conditions across Louisiana.