Posted on 08/24/2017 8:44:29 AM PDT by NautiNurse
Potentially catastrophic Hurricane Harvey approaching Texas Gulf Coast.
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Buoy Data near Harvey
Over the past two hours, the fastest windspeed actually recorded (as opposed to being derived from NHC models) is 45 m.p.h. on an Anadarko oil rig about 100 miles from the reported center of the storm.
Interesting. Take note of the beautifully serene preview shot they put up for the camera link. And then, click for the live camera. Quite a stark contrast.
...Outer rainband from Harvey swiping the lower and middle Texas
Coasts...
...Catastrophic flooding expected across portions of Southern and
Southeastern Texas...
Summary Of 1000 Am CDT... Information
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Location...26.7n 96.0w
About 115 Mi...SE Of Corpus Christi Texas
About 120 Mi...SSE Of Port OConnor Texas
Maximum Sustained Winds...110 Mph
Present Movement...NW Or 315 Degrees At 10 Mph
Minimum Central Pressure...947 Mb...27.97 Inches
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 35 miles (55 km) from the
center, and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 140 miles.
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I wish the NHC wouldn't do this. This map indicates that the Texas coast from Matagorda Bay all the way to South Padre Island is currently experiencing tropical storm force winds. In reality, no land-based station has reported tropical storm force winds yet. The public is best served with accurate information about hurricanes.
IKE.
Harvey has not quite begun to slow down, and the initial motion
estimate is 315/9 kt. Strong mid-level ridging building over the
western United States is still expected to impede Harvey's forward
motion in the coming days, and the track guidance continues to show
the hurricane meandering or stalling near or just inland of the
Texas coast in 36-48 hours. Harvey could begin moving slowly
eastward on days 4 and 5 due to the influence of a mid-level
shortwave trough digging southward over the upper Midwest, but at
this time it is too early to say whether the center will definitely
re-emerge over the northwestern Gulf of Mexico.
Thank you!
any nuclear power plants in the path?
Regarding sewage, you raise an important point.
Last time we had a flooding event I rode the bayou upstream on my mountain bike until it got too deep.
I made it to the Southwest waste treatment plant and could see the water was almost to the lip of giant open settling ponds.
In the 2015 Memorial Day flooding a nearby plant released 100,000 gallons of raw sewage. The water was pushing into some neighborhoods and sucking out of other neighborhoods as it went downstream, so I’m sure it went everywhere. I live in one of those neighborhoods.
Thanks, but no not in area...just following the reports and such as they show while I see whats out there on this Hurricane. I love to seek and search that which interests me....and as much bringing that which I discover I didn’t know about here to share on FR.
May very well prove to be toxic and dangerous waters as the floods move in. From Alligators and other animal life being dislocated to sewers and unknown chemicals fro garages to factories getting into the waters.
Raw sewage in flood waters...add that to the fire ants, snakes and other charming critters seeking dry ground and shelter. Then there is possible electrocution with downed live wires in flood water. Flooding is bad news—and hazardous to health.
The Galveston hit has been postponed even more. There certainly won’t be any surge by then. By far the main problem is going to be inland flooding especially the rivers. Some will hit new record heights.
Too many other ways out of Houston to rely on the interstates. You don’t have to head north initially either. Go east or west a ways before heading north helps
Corpus Christie radar loop shows well defined eye of Harvey.
See? This is what I’m talking about. The NHC map showed the waterfront areas of Corpus Christi experiencing tropical storm force winds an hour ago, but the weather station at Bob Hall Pier is still not reporting tropical storm force winds yet.
My question, while watching the Weather Channel, do all their on-air staff have to take a loyalty oath to the Al Gore/IPCC position on global warming and climate change?
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