Posted on 09/20/2019 10:05:44 AM PDT by rktman
Record-breaking rainfall from the tropical storm Imelda is soaking southeastern Texas. Some areas have been swamped with 20 to 42 inches (51 to 107 centimeters) of rain over just three days, causing catastrophic flooding that is among the worst in U.S. history.
Imelda, the first named storm to strike this part of Texas since 2017's devastating Hurricane Harvey, is currently the fifth-wettest tropical storm to drench the contiguous U.S., The Weather Channel tweeted today (Sept. 19). Storms that drop this much rain are estimated to appear once in a millennium, according to precipitation models created by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). But the last 1,000-year-rainfall to inundate Texas was Hurricane Harvey — which slammed the state just two years ago.
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They could say the two storms so close together are signs of climate change.
Climate change ping!
Left would be happy if TX disappeared under the waves.
Inconceivable!
Southeast Texas, Beaumont ant the surrounding areas, as well as parts of Houston are like New Orleans and should not be places where people live, or at least not where we the United States taxpayers must keep paying to rebuild after a flood.
The people of New Orleans and Southeast Texas should move to areas that are less likely to flood.
Hit here in San Antonio last night. Rain was very heavy and every minute there were around ten lightning flashes for about an hour or so. One bright flash and thundering crash seemed to hit our back yard as I watched out the window and the power was lost and then I saw a burst of falling sparks where it seemed it really hit some power pole a couple hundred yards away. Power came back on hours later.
My favorite invented term from last year was "BOMB CYCLONE".
How old was the "reporter" that wrote that headline, and how old was the "editor" that allowed it to go to print like that? Was the story written as a text message on their iPhone?
I just read I believe at www.wattsupwiththat.com that there was far more rainfall during the Little Ice Age which led to crop failure and starvation.
Perhaps the cooler atmosphere causes the water vapor to condense?
Who had the rain gauge 1000 years ago? 500 years ago?
Two 500 year floods in two years for Houston.
I-10 over the San Jacinto bridge is going to be closed for quite a while. Check out this drone video.
I-10 over the San Jacinto bridge is going to be closed for quite a while. Check out this drone video.
I did almost post that and “The Sky Is Crying”.
Uh, if it happened in the little ice age wouldn’t it have been snow? Just sayin’. :-)
and soon Texas will be Green
MTGA? Make Texas Green Again!
Clearly, a complete lack of understanding of, or total disregard for, the rules of statistics.
A ‘1,000 year storm’ is just a way of saying that there is a 1/1,000 chance of that happening in any given year. It does not mean that it isn’t supposed to happen every thousand years.
It’s like a 30% chance of rain - doesn’t mean that there’s a 1 in 3 chance of rain overall, just that they’ve estimated that only about a third of the area is likely to get wet.
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