Former Tropical Storm Barry strengthened into a hurricane on Saturday morning.\u00a0 The National Hurricane Center designated Barry as a hurricane on Saturday morning based on data from surface weather stations and from reconnaissance aircraft.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Hurricane Barry was located at latitude 29.6\u00b0N and longitude 92.0\u00b0W which put it about 40 miles (65 km) south of Lafayette, Louisiana.\u00a0 Barry was moving toward the northwest at 6 m.p.h. (10 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 75 m.p.h. (120 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 90 m.p.h. (145 km\/h).\u00a0 The minimum surface pressure was 993 mb.<\/p>\n
A Hurricane Warning is in effect for the portion of the coast from Intracoastal City to Grand Isle, Louisiana. A Hurricane Watch has been issued for the portion of the coast from Intracoastal City to Cameron, Louisiana. Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect for the portions of the coast from the Mouth of the Pearl River to Grand Isle, Louisiana and from Intracoastal City to Sabine Pass, Louisiana. A Tropical Storm Warning is in effect for Lake Pontchartrain, Lake Maurepas and New Orleans.<\/p>\n
Former Tropical Storm Barry strengthened on Saturday morning.\u00a0 Many more thunderstorms developed just south and east of the center of circulation.\u00a0 The pressure gradient tightened near the center of Hurricane Barry and the wind speeds increased to hurricane force.\u00a0 The hurricane force winds were occurring in the eastern side of the circulation.\u00a0 Winds to hurricane force extended out about 45 miles (75 km) from the center on the eastern side of Hurricane Barry.\u00a0 The winds were weaker on the western side of Barry.\u00a0 Winds to tropical storm force extended out about 170 miles (280 km) from the center.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Barry is unlikely to strengthen significantly before the center moves over the coast of Louisiana.\u00a0 Almost half of the circulation is over land.\u00a0 The wind speeds will decrease gradually after the center moves over land.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Barry will move around the western end of a ridge of high pressure.\u00a0 The ridge will steer Barry slowly toward the northwest during the next few hours.\u00a0 Barry will move more toward the north on Sunday.\u00a0 On its anticipated track the center of Hurricane Barry will make landfall southwest of Lafayette, Louisiana near Abbeville.\u00a0 The center of Barry will move northward over western Louisiana on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Hurricane Barry will cause mainly minor wind damage over the eastern half of Louisiana.\u00a0 There also could be widespread power outages.\u00a0 On the eastern side of Hurricane Barry southerly winds were pushing water toward the coast.\u00a0 A storm surge of 6 to 9 feet (2 to 3 meters) could occur just to the east of where the center makes landfall.\u00a0 Southeasterly winds were causing flooding around the western side of Lake Pontchartrain.\u00a0 Several bands in the eastern side of Hurricane Barry were dropping heavy rain.\u00a0 Persistent heavy rain is likely to cause flooding in some locations.\u00a0 Flash Flood Watches were in effect for parts of Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Alabama.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Former Tropical Storm Barry strengthened into a hurricane on Saturday morning.\u00a0 The National Hurricane Center designated Barry as a hurricane on Saturday morning based on data from surface weather stations and from reconnaissance aircraft.\u00a0 At 11:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Hurricane Barry was located at latitude 29.6\u00b0N and longitude 92.0\u00b0W which put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2],"tags":[378,377,384,1542,1544,1545,1213,113,493,716,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7919,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7918\/revisions\/7919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}