Posted on 05/21/2021 12:00:07 PM PDT by blam
Reuters) - A weather system forming over the western Gulf of Mexico has a 40% chance of becoming a cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Friday.
"Regardless of development, the system could produce heavy rainfall over portions of southeastern Texas and southwestern Louisiana during the next few days," it said.
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Are grocers out of toilet paper, bread, milk, and water yet?
We had solid rain in Houston from Sunday through Wednesday. Looks like more coming.
Send some to ATL, it’s dry here.
When did we start having cyclones in our hemisphere?
“Cyclones” you say. Hmmmm
In meteorology, a cyclone (/ˈsaɪ.kloʊn/) is a large scale air mass that rotates around a strong center of low atmospheric pressure, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere as viewed from above (opposite to an anticyclone).[1][2] Cyclones are characterized by inward-spiraling winds that rotate about a zone of low pressure.
An extratropical cyclone near Iceland on September 4, 2003
Cyclone is the generic term, until they know more about it.
Cool, that’s a 60% chance of no cyclone.
Can you guys get some giant windmills or something and push it west? We need rain. Badly.
We dont need this, more rain the past 2 months than the past 2 years already, trees are falling due to ground saturation. One fell and brought power lines down last weekend, Sunday evening I think, power off just over 24 hours. I was driving home, large pine tree fell and brouoght lines down with it, fell halfway across the road about 5 miles before I got home. Happened maybe 5 - 10 minutes before I drove through at most. Cops weren’t even there yet, I couldn’t call them, had no signal. Dead signal area. More rain 2 days later, power off all day again, came on at 2AM.
Been raining here off and on the past 3 days, power just went off for around 2 hours, came on 5 minutes ago. just started to rain again.
Fishing on the coast is not good, too much fresh water. Lake here is up to about its highest level ever, I think it’s a match for 2 or 3 years ago. I’m on no danger of flooding, it would have to rise another 8 feet or more to get even in the yard. Little chance of that.
Ditches across the area are full. Lake is at all time high level. Rivers already out of their banks, or close, into overflow areas. Trees have fallen in several places due to ground saturation. Some roads have inch or two deep water running across. Ponds overflowing. Ground in my yard is so soft I sink in an inch in places, and I only weigh about 140.
Strange thing is about 4 or 5 hours west of here it’s a drought.
Right on time for hurricane season. Who’da thunk.
They have them in some parts of the Midwest. The rest of the country calls them tornados.
We were supposed to have 8 inches of rain and flooding last week. It barely misted.
It would be nice if it could cross Mexico, reform in the Pacific and head for drought-stricken California.
Like that area needs more rain, and how are they fixed for gasoline now?
Those folks on that end of the upper Gulf caught hell last year so I hope this is mild. BUT please don’t come to the eastern end of the upper Gulf because I’m still suffering Hurricane Michael tragedies...
Better yet, if it could head due west or southwest 150 - 200 miles or so and stall above a few thousand “migrants” headed our direction...
aka Tropical Storm
The rest of the world calls them cyclones.
It’s kinda like the soccer/football thing.
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