By Paul Homewood

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/gulf-coast-drenched-storm-barry-044528264.html

Just a quick confirmation that Storm Barry officially made landfall as a tropical storm, and not a hurricane.

It briefly strengthened to a Cat 1, but weakened before landfall. In fact it barely reached Cat 1 status, with max winds of 65Kts – the Saffir Simpson Cat 1 band starts at 64KTs:

http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/products/tc_realtime/storm.asp?storm_identifier=AL022019

So far, rainfall totals on New Orleans are much less than originally predicted, as Barry veered to the west of the city.

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July 14, 2019 at 04:48AM