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Reduce Flooding: Study Finds Stalling Cyclones Increasing

5/11/25 – A study published in the November 2024 edition of the Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology by researchers from Louisiana State University and Texas A&M examined stalling and rapidly intensifying tropical cyclones. After analyzing 1,274 storms going back to 1900, they found one of the primary areas for such storms to strike is […]

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Reduce Flooding: Remembering the Seventh Anniversary of Hurricane Harvey

8/27/24 — This week marks the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Harvey. Today is the 2555th day since the event. It’s hard to pinpoint an exact date for a storm that ravaged SE Texas for the better part of a week. But most of us remember anniversaries in a personal context. For whatever reason, back when […]

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Reduce Flooding: How May 2024 Flood Compared to Harvey

Harris County Flood Control District (HCFCD) briefed the County’s Community Resilience Flood Task Force on how the extent of the May 2024 flood compared to Hurricane Harvey. In places, inundation matched Harvey. And in others it came close or fell short. See the inundation map below. In my opinion, it dramatizes three things: Anytime As […]

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Reduce Flooding: Beryl Goes from Tropical Storm to Cat 4 in One Day

6/30/24, 4 PM – Beryl intensified from a tropical storm yesterday morning to a category 4 hurricane with 130 mph winds this afternoon. Elsewhere, Tropical Depression #3 has formed in the Bay of Campeche. NHC predicts it will become a tropical storm by tonight and make landfall near where Alberto did in Mexico less than […]

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Reduce Flooding: Top of SJR Basin Has Received Normal YTD Rainfall Plus a Harvey or Two

6/4/24 – Rainfall in the upper part of the San Jacinto River (SJR) Basin during early May storms rivaled Hurricane Harvey totals there. And if you consider year-to-date rainfall (YTD) totals, the amount above normal equals two Harveys in places! The comparisons with Harvey help put into perspective some extraordinary rainfall in a relatively small […]

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