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Help with Humberto

Posted on September 12, 2007 | Comments Off on Help with Humberto

The Austin-Travis County EMS and the Texas Army National Guard left this afternoon for the coast to help anyone hurt by TS Humberto.

"Five rescue medics will be assigned to a boat squad; four rescue medics will be assigned to staff two helicopter squads and will be teamed with military pilots and rescue personnel aboard Texas National Guard Blackhawk helicopters."

Humberto is gathering strength little by little and could go ashore near Galveston sometime tonight. JD, at the Mouth of the Brazos blog, is wondering what, if anything, Brazoria County will get, and musing about a beach house he lost to similar storms. 

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Tropical Depression Nine

Posted on September 12, 2007 | Comments Off on Tropical Depression Nine

That low that’s been churning off the Texas coast for several days has now been declared a tropical depression, south-southwest of Galveston and moving north at six mph. Tropical storm warnings have been issued from Port O’Conner, Texas, to Cameron, Louisiana. It’s forecast to be a tropical storm shortly before making landfall on the Texas coast tonight.

UPDATE: Whew. That didn’t long. It’s Tropical Storm Humberto now and it’s cooking and ready to go. An AF recon sent to measure it returned to base with mechanical problems. But another is on the way. It better be. This thing is moving as fast as Allison did six years ago. Hope it doesn’t have as much rain in it. The ground all along there is ripe for flooding as it is already saturated.

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Remember Allison?

Posted on September 12, 2007 | Comments Off on Remember Allison?

Accuweather meteorologist Joe Bastardi isn’t predicting another weather bomb like Tropical Storm Allison–which dropped thirty-plus inches of rain on Houston in June of 2001–he just thinks this thing dubbed 90L that’s turning lazily off the northwestern Texas coast could become nasty by Tursday and might even head northeast to Louisiana: "Moral is people on the Texas and Louisiana gulf coasts should be keeping a wary eye open for this, if they have not been already."

UPDATE: KVET meteorologist Troy Kimmel alerts us to the Miami Hurricane Center’s dispatch of Air Force recon into 90L, which is "becoming better organized" and could be a tropical depression later today.

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Next rainmaker?

Posted on September 10, 2007 | Comments Off on Next rainmaker?

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Not considered terribly likely to become a tropical depression, much less a storm, but worth watching if you’re on the coast. Scroll to the second image at the second link.

UPDATE: Instead, it looks like Central Texas gets clobbered tonight and tomorrow by a passing cold front out of the northwest, followed by another one on Friday.

MORE ON TUESDAY: Can’t get LCRA meteorologist Bob Rose’s permalink to work, but he says this thing (which might become a tropical depression tonight) will contribute to what looks like a week of rain. Familiar. It poured at the rancho this morning as Mr. Boy left for school. Finally quit at noon. 

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The new garden state

Posted on September 7, 2007 | Comments Off on The new garden state

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This isn’t precisely new. It’s just so much fun to look at. Texas rarely has no drought anywhere. Just look at how different it was less than thirteen months ago. Texas would be even more of (chauvinism alert) a garden than it already is if we got this much rain every year. 

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Riders in the storm

Posted on September 6, 2007 | Comments Off on Riders in the storm

Seven-minute video takes you into a C-130 flight deck inside Hurricane Felix, at Cat 5 strength. It’s the Air Force Hurricane Hunters, measuring the storm for the National Hurricane Center in Miami. With appropriate music audio to keep you from getting bored between lightning flashes, and stills at the end of the moon rising over the eye wall. Wouldn’t be my idea of fun.

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Oops

Posted on September 5, 2007 | Comments Off on Oops

All that Hill Country rain yesterday has the Llano and Pedernales rivers running almost 4,000 cubic feet per second. Since both feed into the Highland Lakes, it’s just a matter of time before Lake Travis starts climbing again. In fact, the LCRA is predicting a rise of about half a foot by this evening. Fortunately that would be only about 683 feet msl, and the rain is expected to be over by tonight.

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