Tropical Depression Two Along South Texas Coast
Hello everybody, this is Senior Meteorologist Shaun Tanner writing Dr. Masters' blog while he is on vacation.
Tropical Depression Two formed overnight in the northern Bay of Campeche and is now making landfall along the extreme south coast of Texas. A hurricane hunter was sent into the system and found a low-level circulation. While there are some reports of tropical storm strength winds in the squalls of the system, there is just not enough evidence to upgrade the storm to tropical storm strength before landfall.
The satellite representation of the depression is quite impressive as half of the depression is now over landfall. Brownsville radar currently is showing the effects of the depression with heavy rain and thunderstorms through much of southern Texas.
The biggest lingering effect from the depression will be to prolong the devastating flooding that has been ongoing in southern Texas and northeast Mexico. Not including the rain that will fall due to the depression, over the past 7 days, the area near Houston has received over 10 inches of rain, while some inland areas of Texas has received over 4 inches of rain. The problem gets worse in the Mexican state of Coahuila near the Texas border has received upwards of 20 inches of rain in the past 7 days due to substantial moisture pouring into the area.
This surging watershed has caused massive flooding throughout the region, with the area near Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico being the hardest hit. The flooding has caused the major border crossing between those two cities to be closed as the Rio Grande surged and threatened to top the crossing's bridge. A contingent of Mexican officials, including the mayor of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, touring the flooding damage in an airplane crashed Wednesday, killing all six onboard. Evacuations on both sides of the border has forced tens of thousands of people out of their homes, while over 100,000 people were without water service. The flooding problem is extra dangerous because swollen dams had to release some of their water downstream into areas that towns that have already been swamped. It was even reported that one of these releases by the National Water Commission of Mexico was the largest emergency water release in the country.
Needless to say, the rain from Tropical Depression Two will only further the flooding problems in southern Texas and northeast Mexico. Figure 3 shows the severe map and the greens represent Flood Watches and Warnings. You can see almost the entire states of Texas and Oklahoma are under these watches and warnings in anticipation of several inches of rain from the remnants of Tropical Depression Two.
Figure 1. Satellite loop of Tropical Depression Two.
Figure 2. Storm-centered radar as depression makes landfall.
Figure 3. Severe map.
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haha! Yeah, high school allowed me to be on here more frequently, college is eating my time too. XD
Yet I somehow manage to log in everyday and check this blog, take pictures to keep my Wuphotos active while checking my Facebook O.o and then to study, I guess I'll go mad eventually. LOL
But I'm not that old on here LOL just three short years. XD
Man that is crazy! That's usually what keeps us cooler too as the sea breeze, there were a few days back in june I thought we might just top 100, but the sea breeze held us steady every time between 97 and 99! In fact my weather station several times came ONE TENTH of a degree from 100 but never quite got there! lol
Over the 7 years Ive had a weather station, its never hit 100 at my house. I'm thankful to live by the coast in central Florida!
Honestly though, no matter what the numbers say, chances are it still feels hotter in Florida, whether it be the sun's intensity or the deep tropical moisture always floating in the deep tropical moisture around as well as all the swamps and wet lands.
But you're in southern Giorgia, which won't be very different from Florida, so I can imagine 101 is a huge deal there too, it must be really oppressive!
81.5 °F / 27.5 °C
Partly Cloudy
Humidity: 82%
Dew Point: 76 °F / 24 °C
Wind: Calm
Wind Gust: 0.0 mph / 0.0 km/h
Pressure: 29.99 in / 1015.5 hPa (Falling)
Heat Index: 88 °F / 31 °C
Thank Goodness for A/C!
ITS FIXIN TO BE A CATEGORY 5 AND HIT US DADDY! GRAB THE DAGGUM 12 GUAGE AND GIT EM BEFORE HE GROWS TOO BIG OFF ALL THE WATER!
I'll just hide under a bucket LOL!
As long as he's not winking two creepy little yellow eyes at you again...
haha! yeah...
no creepy yellow eyes please :3
Yeah usually on the hottest days the dry air does mix down... But every now on then you get the worst combination between muggy air from the seabreeze but yet never really cooled off by it...
We had several days with the heat index was around 110 to 120 last month. It got that bad in June last year too!
It seems June is the hottest month around here in the summer. We just get too much rain around here the rest of the summer months. Like now, we had so much rain last 2 weeks, that this hot dry spell last few days isn't turning out that bad. The ground has been rain cooled excessively, to where the sun seems to focus more on moisture evaporation rather then rising the air temperature.
*JLPR hides under bucket*
El Conando "Pffft get your own bucket".
It has some spuriously spurious activity.
Nah, looks like the GFS is just developing spurious areas of low pressure again... Which means it must be discounted from the forecast.
haha!
*Notices another bucket with a Florida Flag and a shower curtain on the side, sigh, I sit on a chair waiting for the cane to come and get me.*
LOL XD
It'll probably be gone in the morning *crosses fingers*
Bonnie...where R U?
South America view of the 00Z ECMWF which shows the east ATL and the coast of Africa.
Viewing: 2151 - 2176
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