The Weather channel anyways has now taken North Eastern Mexico and Southwestern Louisiana out of the cone for the eye. It's going to hit the Texas coast folks. Get out if you are near the shoreline.
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Category 3 Hurricane Rita became the fifth major hurricane of the 2005 season during the night. Hurricane Rita threaded the needle through the Florida Straits and moved into the Gulf of Mexico. Storm damage in the Florida Keys and South Florida Peninsula was light, with scattered power outages, scattered tornados, and mild to moderate flooding.
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74 - 95 mph 64 - 82 kts |
28.94" or more 980.02 mb or more |
4.0' - 5.0' 1.2 m - 1.5 m |
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| Hurricane 2 (Moderate) |
96 - 110 mph 83 - 95 kts |
28.50" - 28.93" 965.12 mb - 979.68 mb |
6.0' - 8.0' 1.8 m - 2.4 m |
Moderate damage to houses |
| Hurricane 3 (Strong) |
111 - 130 mph 96 - 112 kts |
27.91" - 28.49" 945.14 mb - 964.78 mb |
9.0' - 12.0' 2.7 m - 3.7 m |
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| Hurricane 4 (Very strong) |
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27.17" - 27.90" 920.08 mb - 944.80 mb |
13.0' - 18.0' 3.9 m - 5.5 m |
Extreme structural damage |
| Hurricane 5 (Devastating) |
Greater than 155 mph Greater than 135 kts |
Less than 27.17" Less than 920.08 mb |
Greater than 18.0' Greater than 5.5m |
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and here's a little tidbit from the King Ranch homepage:
It is a shorter drive between New York and Philadelphia; or Pittsburgh and Cleveland than it is from one end of the Ranch to the other.
She has three young boys. When I spoke to her, the one thing I DID know I could tell her was that her travel plans could get delayed and she needed to know if her kids had coverage.
The Weather channel anyways has now taken North Eastern Mexico and Southwestern Louisiana out of the cone for the eye. It's going to hit the Texas coast folks. Get out if you are near the shoreline.
Yes and no. The distance from Port Lavaca (west side of Matagorda Bay) to Galveston is the distance from Katrina's center's landfall to Mobile, and they had a 10-20' (depending on the source) storm surge, heavily damaging Dauphin Island.
Was Rush joking?
Not that I'd be surprised, but still...
That, and the fact that he gave that stupid speech in NYC on the coldest day there in sixty years. You'd think even someone as dense as he would have taken the hint, but alas, he is too far gone even for that.
History:
King Ranch was founded in 1853 after Captain Richard King traveled north from Brownsville to attend the Lone Star Fair in Corpus Christi. King’s route took him through the Wild Horse Desert where he encountered the Santa Gertrudis Creek, the first live water he had seen in 124 miles. The creek was an oasis shaded by large mesquite trees and offered protection from the sun as well as cool, sweet water to refresh the traveler.At the Fair, King and a friend of his, Texas Ranger Captain, Gideon K. "Legs" Lewis, formed a partnership to establish and operate a livestockoperation with its headquarters on this Creek.
The land the partnership purchased was the 15,500 acre Mexican land grant known as the Rincon de Santa Gertrudis. King’s first effort to set up a cow camp and tame the Wild Horse Desert was the beginning of a dream he would pursue the rest of his life. In the years since King’s death, King Ranch has been a bellwether of America’s ranching industry - the founder of two major American beef breeds, a producer of some of the all-time top running and performance horses, and a source of technology that has led to many significant advances in livestock and wildlife production and management. Because of this vision, King Ranch is generally recognized today as the birthplace of the American ranching industry. King Ranch continues to play a significant role as a leader in the multinational agricultural business world.
The King Ranch is the largest ranch in Texas, maybe in the US. It used to be the largest in the world. Miles of acreage with nothing but grass, scrub brush, and some tree breaks. Oh, and cattle. Cattle can usually take care of themselves in a storm as long as they don't have to swim out of a flood. They'll know this thing is coming by tomorrow, and they'll head up north away from the coast.
If I have anything to say about it, yes.
Ah that little tip in the green is not Mexico:')
Thanks for the info on King Ranch... never knew about it, and it is impressive!
The ECMWF model was closest, I believe...which is not one of your choices...
Look at a map of Texas. See the first bay along the coast up from the southern tip? The southern tip is Brownsville and Harlingen, otherwise known as the Valley. That first bay is Kingsville. And everything between is the King Ranch.
Any hurricane going in just north of Brownsville will strike an undeveloped Padre Island and an entire Texas county that is nothing but ranchland. Bret hit there in 1998, and is the only Cat 4 to hit the mainland US and not have its name retired, because all it did was knock down some ranch structures and kill some cattle.
Hi Diddle E.! Yep, I was concenred about you... thank you for replying.
You nailed Kat's landing and I know you'll nail Rita's too. Please try to remember to ping me to your posts.
Yeah, it's looking like it may head straight for Austin when it comes ashore. Them things can go a long way before they peter out. Katrina went what, almost to New York.
Out of those the GFDL was the best. But the bestest was LBAR.
Probably back in the 40s. This kind of season is not unprecedented, no matter what the greens and the rats and the leninists try to spin and sell.
But for Nagin it was FUBAR
Bump till I get home.
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