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9 am CT Sunday: Good morning. The good news, right off the top, is that we’re basically in the same place with Tropical Storm Beta as we were 12 hours ago. Beta is truly struggling right now, dealing with things from dry air to wind shear, all of which make Beta a very lopsided storm. […]
Read MoreApologies for being a few minutes late: Toddler life. So Eric’s post from earlier this afternoon tackled a number of things, including track risks, our flood scale update, and the coastal impacts expected from now Tropical Storm Beta. In this update, I am going to focus primarily on the now and next couple days. We […]
Read MoreWe will hop right into things today, beginning with our near-term forecast and then jumping into the latest on Tropical Depression 22. Friday & Saturday The cold front is through, and we’re on the way to more comfortable weather. Look for a good bit of cloud cover at times today, with perhaps a slight lean […]
Read MoreWe’ve got a lot of moving parts in the forecast for the next week or so, with each one helping shape what the next one will do. The first big item is our late week front, which seems to be on track. The second item is the tropical disturbance off Mexico that many of you […]
Read MoreThe Atlantic is full. No room at the inn, folks. We’re fresh out of vacancy. If only that were true. Since our last tropical update last Tuesday, we’ve added <checks notes> three more storms. We’re running about three weeks ahead of 2005’s pace and the last name on the list is Wilfred before we shift […]
Read MoreGood morning. Tropical Depression 19 was upgraded to Tropical Storm Sally yesterday, and this morning it has 60 mph maximum sustained winds off the west coast of Florida. While we continue to expect no real impacts here in Texas, this will be a problem for the central Gulf Coast. On satellite, Sally is quite impressive, […]
Read MoreYesterday was a really interesting day across the broader version of southeast Texas. College Station maxed out at 73° on Thursday, which breaks the record of 77° from 1948 as the coolest maximum temperature recorded there on September 10th. Much of the western half of the Houston metro area saw dewpoints drop into the 60s […]
Read MoreHistorically, this week marks the statistical peak of the Atlantic hurricane season. This year looks to live up to the hype as well. We have two tropical storms in the Atlantic today and there are likely to be at least a couple more before next week. We don’t think that any of these systems will […]
Read MoreWe certainly have not been in a true “drought” this summer, but at times, we’ve flirted with some extended dry periods. We seem to be in one of those now. Over the last 60 days, we have seen mixed results in the rainfall department in our area. Parts of the Houston area, particularly down toward […]
Read MoreIt’s kind of crazy to think that our last full tropical update was two weeks ago, and we noted how things were about to ramp up. For many folks in Louisiana, the world is a much different place today than it was then. For Houston, I think we had a moment there. You exhale, but […]
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