Posted on 07/27/2011 2:35:07 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Tropical Storm Don has formed in the Gulf of Mexico. Current forecast track indicates Texas should receive much needed precipitation. Interests in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico should monitor the progress of Don.
Note this got up to 70 mph with half the distance that Don has before it reaches the TX coast.
We are in Central Texas now. Yes, it is very hot and we could use the rain! I would never wish a storm on anyone.
No way Jose. Tyler and we are dryer than Dallas by a long shot.
I remember this storm being 11. I could not go outside in the hammering rain over 4 days (well of course I eventually escaped). I remember lying in bed with the roof starting to leak thinking I'd never see the sun again.
Another Amelia is exactly what we need, 33 years later.
They have Charley costing 50 mil? I thought it just blew a few cattle off the King Ranch.
Its the GOM canes that hang around drifting or circle around that get to be bad boys.
But wishing Houston to blow over to New Orleans? Come on now, I figured anyone who said that had to be from Dallas.LOL
Good example. That TS got up to 50 mph with almost no distance to intensify. I just don’t see how Don stays below hurricane strength before landfall. But tropical systems can be strange beasts.
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I think that’s all my husband had after Alicia as well, but he was better off than a couple friends on Galveston. He still has the pictures before they started working to clean up and fix up. Awful.
Early season tropical storm - gulf temps are only really up near shore, middle of the gulf along cone of uncertainty isn’t really indicative of major strengthening nor major water production. Fingers crossed that there’s much of a storm inland, especially for my friends in New Mexico, but I honestly don’t see this providing anywhere near the needed rainfall for those who are much inland.
This said, if the storm slows a bit, hits JUST the right spot in the middle of the pit in the gulf, and gets a bit of cooperation from mainland weather, it COULD develop into something reasonable. Maybe a 5% chance at most. Unfortunately, if all that does happen, it has a high chance of moving the cone a whole lot eastward. I don’t see a lot of inland Texas rain from this system, but we’re still very early in the season.
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It’s all guesswork for the most part. We’ll now more as time progresses.
Strictly a MS slave here, sorry!
And in a slow mover (once landfalling), being on the ‘dirty’ NE quadrant of the track nets you the most rain.
So naturally I’d like to see Don land where Amelia did, at the same speed and trajectory.
Your parents got 16” in 12 hours out of Hermine, who was a fast mover. I think we got 12”, but it filled up Lake Travis within two days, after being about as low and dry as it is today.
There is no salvage for TX corn, wheat, cotton, hay, beef, anything. All we can hope is to wet up the soil for next spring.
Spend a day or two and you’ll agree. Half belongs in NO and the other half in Mehico, a good sprinkling of Yankees for good measure. Everybody wants to move to the country, but have to work there.
Looks like you might be getting some rain this weekend. I pray that it happens; you and the folks in your area need it desperately.
Hermine saved Central Texas’s bacon. Without the refill of the lakes, they would be in a lot worse shape at this point as far as stored water supply.
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