Harris County Meteorologist Jeff Lindner Joins Houston Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's se what the folks of central Louisiana or in for.
Jeff Linder joins us, Jeff, what do you think the
compare this to Barrel? But how does this compare to Beryl?

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Yeah, I think it's gonna be pretty similar to Beryl,
especially Morgan City, Homa, Port, Fouchon, Grand Isle, and even
metro New Orleans. Uh, you know the the eastern track
shifts we've seen, you know, taken it from kind of
the upper Texas coast on Sunday over towards Lake Charles
and then Lafayette and now even putting New Orleans and
the Mississippi coast in play this morning. And so you

(00:34):
know it's coming quick. I think you know, the these
tropic storm force ones are coming up to the coast now,
Hurricane conditions coming in quick this afternoon into that Vermilion Bay,
a Chafalaya basin area, and then up into the New
Orleans area this evening and tonight, probably missing bat Rouge
a little bit to the east, and then up into
southern Mississippi as we get into tomorrow. So big threat here.

(00:56):
Sea level water level rise on the coast fire to
ten feet above normally dry ground, very marshy, very low
lying areas that'd be outside of the Federal Hurricane Protection
levees there in southeast Louisiana. And then the winds with
the increasing forward speed like what we saw here with Beryl,
wouldn't be surprised to get hurricane force wind gust all
the way up into Mississippi. So obviously power is going

(01:18):
to be an issue over there.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, you said with Beryl, it was hitting the accelerator
coming in. It didn't quite make Cat two, but it
was on the verge of it. Is that pretty much
the same thing because it's still a Cat one. We
thought it would be a Cat to hurricane, but it
doesn't look like it's going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:34):
Yeah, very similar, and you know every storm is kind
of different, are the same, and so this is somewhat
similar to Barrel.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
I think actually.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Beryl was maybe a little bit more organized than this.
This is going to be running into increasingly unfavorable conditions
as it comes up to the coast versus Barrel was
increasingly favorable. So seron dry air is going to be
wrapping into fran scene and it's going to become a
very lopsided storm. So the southern backside of his going
to be eroded away with that dry air and sheer,

(02:03):
and so that may help some to help level off
the intensification as it kind of comes up to the coast.
But that forward speed, you gotta think. You'll say, the
wind's blowing ninety, it's moving fifteen miles an hour. You
add that extra fifteen on that eastern side, and so
you know, you could get wind guss up over one hundred,
one hundred and five miles an hour potentially probably just

(02:25):
a little bit west of Mets, New Orleans. But I
tell you what, Metro New Orleans is probably going to
have some hurricane conditions this evening.

Speaker 1 (02:30):
Sounds like it though. It's going to be with that
fast move. At least he's going to get in of
Louisiana and get out fairly quickly.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Yeah, that's exactly right. Rainfall maybe five or six inches,
which for southern Louisiana is not that big of a deal. Flooding,
you know, Yeah, they get some street flooding and stuff
like that, especially in New Orleans with the with the
pumping system and everything. But the big threat here is
probably going to be the wind, the power outages, and
that coastal storm sturge down there around Morgan City and

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home along Highway ninety, coming up out of a million
of Chapelia Bays.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
All right, well, we'll see how We'll see how their
electric company does as far as the vegetation. Well, find
out if they removed enough of theirs. Thanks, Jeff, appreciate it.
Harris County Meteorologist Jeff Linder