The NHC said it would get to 4o knots within 24 hours. It got to that within 15 minutes of them saying that.
So they were right.
Posted on 08/02/2008 11:46:18 AM PDT by nwctwx
Thanks. Y’all do a great job.
South and Central Texas coast got enough rain from Dolly. PLEASE veer north a little and give us North Texans some relief!!!!
And you do a great job hosting the hurricane threads. Here’s to hoping you have another relatively dull year in that regard.
Send it up my way. Killeen is a dust bowl right now. Almost lost a tree after heading down to Padre for a week, the week before Dolly. Having to water constantly.
Eeesh...you reminded me of 2004. I had a big dumpster full of old fence and yard waste after Hurricane Frances did her thing. The new fence materials were delivered and neatly stacked near the loaded dumpster the day we learned Hurricane Jeanne was en route.
Houston and Galveston need to issue an emergency advisory. They will have a tropical storm, perhaps even a hurricane tomorrow night, and nobody has a clue about it.
We got a whopping 1.5” just north of CC.
P>This is how Allison snuck up on Houston. Nobody was paying any attention.
We got our first torrential rain in weeks in the northern suburbs of Houston an hour ago.
Not sure if it is related to the storm. But up until yesterday the local forecasts were for no rain as far as the eye can see.
Preach it, Dog. Any hurricane forecaster worth their salt will tell you they have the most difficult time with intensity forecasts as opposed to track forecasts. Folks on the upper Texas coast have to prepare now like a hurricane will be there in 48 hours.
The NHC said it would get to 4o knots within 24 hours. It got to that within 15 minutes of them saying that.
So they were right.
Looks like the upper coast will get very wet. Hopefully without the winds.
I think it's worse than that. It could be arriving tomorrow afternoon. There's no panic buying at the stores. Nobody knows this thing exists.
No, we have an idea. The 6 pm news on both 11 and 13 said the storm “could be serious.”
It is a tad strange that there is no breaking news on the stations especially in an area that the news channels usually go overboard.
Perhaps tomorrow am when the weekend crowd returns to the television?
At least the convection is still limited to basically one quadrant. But that is still some pretty healthy-looking convection.
This is how Allison got us. I well remember her and it was very scary spending the night in my small apartment hallway.
The destruction was severe.
Keep a heads up on this one.
I would hope weather alert radios have sounded the tropical storm watch/warnings for the affected areas. Those alarms are pretty hard to ignore.
Fortunately, Edouard is moving at a snail's pace currently, and TS winds only extend 35 miles from the center.
I am the only one that has heard that before while learning or reading, and/or watching about US history: 1900 in the month of September of that year?
........hmm what was it?
Just asking not to imply the same thing okay?
Over a 100 years ago with very little weather tech....
I hate it when my brain gets stuck......think now.......any help would be great....
It’s not so much what it is right now, but how rapidly it intensified into a tropical depression and then into a tropical storm.
I don’t think there’s enough time for it to develop into a Category 2 hurricane, although sea conditions are certainly favorable for further intensification.
The track doesn’t have much uncertainty. This could slam into Houston tomorrow as a hurricane with perhaps 90% of the population completely clueless.
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