Barry Onshore Barely...

My midday update has nothing startling to report.  Satellite and radar loops indicate the CENTER of Hurricane Barry( yes he was upgraded) is just west of Abbeville with only a slow drift to the NW.  NHC says it's now 6 mph, but I'm not seeing a lot of movement.   That slow movement will allow bands of heavy storms to rotate inland from the south.   IF you get stuck under one of those bands, 2-3" could fall in less than an hour resulting in some street flooding.  That is our major concern for the rest of today and tonight.  NWS still thinks totals could exceed 10" across NOLA  while my idea is more around 3-5".   if we have breaks in the intensity, our pumps should keep up. However, there is NO NEED to wander far from home since not many businesses are open. Strong south winds continue to bring high water levels outside of our protection levees (including the Mississippi coast) and those levels probably won't drop much until after high tides on Sunday morning.  What we don't want to see is Barry stall over south or central Louisiana keeping us on the wet side into Monday.  Some positive info, surface pressures are rising and the colors on the IR satellite are warming indicating those storms are weakening.   I've been looking for a word to describe Barry and some have suggested "weird, strange, unusual" but I think CONVOLUTED best describes him.  By definition convoluted means extremely complex, or difficult to follow.  Yep, that's Barry.  Even now he remains a lopsided storm with almost no weather around his center.  Weird & strange works too.  Stay tuned!