Hurricane watch

The tropical storm's slow track meant it was likely to deliver a deluge of water.
"There are three ways that Louisiana can flood; storm surge, high rivers, and rain. We're going to have all three," said Bel Edwards.



 
Rainbands now landing ashore, power outages across the region. Barry is still a tropical storm but is moving so slowly that all weather stations are revising their estimates upwards.

Next update from NOAA in 20 minutes.

Some local webcams






 
We have a friend who lives in New Orleans and have been receiving updates via Facebook. Last photo showed their 'bug out' essentials ready for a quick evac.
 
Barry was a hurricane, for about an hour.
 
At the other end of the Pacific, typhoon Lekima is impacting on China, but storm Krosa - now a hurricane - near Guam is starting to worry people.

 
From the Himawari 8 weather geosat


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Krosa 'officially' a typhoon.


Japan advised more than 300,000 people to evacuate their homes on Wednesday and airlines cancelled hundreds of scheduled flights as a tropical storm bore down on the archipelago, public broadcaster NHK said.
 
Now a category 4, and growing. Air pressure is very deep at around 940mBars and arrival coincides with a king tide.
 
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First reports of 150mph winds coming in, about time for some webcam links (ooooerr)

First up, Nassau


 
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