Hurricane Center: Sally forecast shifts east, further away from metro New Orleans
Source: Times-Picayune
The forecast track for Tropical Storm Sally has shifted east Sunday night away from southeast Louisiana, reversing a westward trend earlier in the day and possibly keeping the eventual hurricane’s strongest winds, heaviest rain and highest storm surge away from metro New Orleans.
It is still expected to form into a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico on Monday.
The National Hurricane Center said in its 10 p.m. update Sally was located approximately 140 miles southwest of Panama City, Florida and moving northwest at 8 mph.
It had maximum sustained wind gusts of 60 mph.
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Certainly may shift again but now looks like mainland landfall near Bay St. Louis or Gulfport, MS.
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Big blobs of convection along the right front quadrant are theorized to have been a cause for the track change.
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New data from the evening recon flight into #Sally indicates that the low-level center is getting tugged toward the new convective burst on the NE side, a trend that would likely lead to intensification if it persists overnight.
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8:35 PM · Sep 13, 2020
From the last recon (showing the width of what could become a central eye if the convective blobs wrap around the swirl to its west) -
But whoever ends up in the right front quadrant at landfall is screwn. At least it won't be a Laura in terms of winds but will be a serious soaker with all that convection.
The only good thing here is that it has taken so long to strengthen, has been someone unstable, and has been slow moving churning up the water (meaning the upwelling of cooler water), hopefully it won't go into RI overdrive.
All I can say is good luck! 
(we may get a glancing line of rain up here in the Philly area from the remnants but that will depend on whether that big Canadian High to our north continues to suppress the whole mess to our south or not).
?ve=1&tl=1and you could see the entire island through the top! 
