Hurricane Season USA

[Phone Man]

Its that time of year. Hurricane Season starts June 1.
Here are a few sites I monitor during this time:

National Hurricane Center

Dallas, TX Weather / Stormpulse / Hurricanes, severe weather, tracking, mapping

Tropical Weather : Weather Underground

Just looked at the above link and there are already two storms in the Indian Ocean.

Here is good reading on Hurricane Preparedness:

National Hurricane Preparedness Week

Jim

 

[mpcrsc562]

Phone Man, I truly, truly hope that the Gulf States--yes, especially Louisiana--are spared from any major storm this season. It is bad enough with tar balls washing ashore...

And nothing seemingly being done about it expediently...

Off topic: Are your Tigers gonna win it all this college football season?

 

[Joan Archer]

Good luck to all that live in the region and I hope that the storms aren't too severe and everyone stays safe.

 

[Phone Man]

Let the games begin.

Low pressure system with 60% chance of becoming Tropical System.



http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/goes/east/catl/flash-ir4.html

Jim

 

[Phone Man]

This guy looked like it might die off a few days ago but it looks to be still churning.



Jim

 

[CarlTR6]

Hopefully it won't come here. I'm still shuddering over 2004 when we had four of 'em.

 

[Phone Man]

First Atlantic storm of season.



Jim

 

[Phone Man]

He is now called Alex. It has 45mph winds at present. It may become a Cat 1 Hurricane (75mph) after it enters the Gulf of Mexico before going ashore in Mexico sometime on Wed.






Jim

 

[CarlTR6]

Looks like most of it will miss the US. However it will wash more oil to the coast of the US.

 

[Phone Man]

Look out Texas. Alex is predicted to head more to the North. A large high pressure ridge in the Gulf is weakening and changing the steering.





Jim

 

[CarlTR6]

The Corpus Christi area may receive a little weather.

 

[madtownidiot]

What about all the damn oil floating around in the gulf? What's that going to be like if a category 5 hurricane rolls in?

 

[Kirsch]

What about all the damn oil floating around in the gulf? What's that going to be like if a category 5 hurricane rolls in?

Not good.

 

[CarlTR6]

It is going to clobber the beaches from the wave action generated by this storm.

 

[Phone Man]

Alex is now a Hurricane with winds of 75mph and heading due West with a land fall along the Mexican coast Wed night. It may reach 90mph before it hits.



Jim

 

[CarlTR6]

Not wishing ill on anyone else, but I am glad it is not here!

 

[Phone Man]

Here is a radar shot out of Brownsville, Tx. Hurricane Center says it may be a Class 2 when it hits the coast. Tropical storm force winds go a long ways out so the Texas coast all the way to Corpus Christi is getting hit.

http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=BRO&product=N0Z&overlay=11101111&loop=yeshttp://radar.weather.gov/ridge/radar.php?rid=BRO&product=N0Z&overlay=11101111&loop=yes

Jim

 

[Phone Man]

Alex makes landfall as Cat 2

View attachment Alex.txt

Jim

 

[Buttoni]

Lived in Galveston/Texas City (just across the causeway from Galveston) for 30+ years. Retired to Central Texas to get away from all that taping, boarding, packing, shuffling furniture, untaping, unboarding, unpacking and rearranging furniture. Luckily, it was usually for naught. Only evacuation that resulted in a direct landfall was Alicia. Only lost a couple windows and drapes that were sucked out the broken windows. Our house was on the highest street in the city, and a Victorian built up another 8' off tgeh ground, so that helped. Don't miss the hurricane season one bit and sure am glad we retired and got away from the coast before Ike. All our friends down there say it will never be the same. Much will never be rebuilt.

 

[CarlTR6]

How did you former house make out through Ike?