HURRICANE Humberto....no Ingrid quite yet
A Hurricane made landfall with 85 mph last night just to the east of High Island, Texas, around point where Chambers, Galveston & Jefferson counties all meet. This was quite a surprise to forecasters. When I went to bed last night, the Weather Channel said the storm was being ripped apart, while CNN said this would be a minimal hurricane...the latter was right, except that it was actually a decent sized Cat 1, and had Texas not been in the way, we'd be looking at a major (i.e. 3+) hurricane right now. This is the first landfalling US hurricane since Wilma in October 2005. The storm has made its way through Chambers, Jefferson, Orange and Newtown Counties, and has now made its way into Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, near Starks. Hurricane warnings still exist (as the storm is still an 80 mph hurricane) from High Island to Cameron (Chambers Co., Jefferson Co., & western Cameron Parish), and a tropical storm warning exists for eastern Cameron Parish & Vermillion Parish. According to KPLC in Lake Charles, which will take the brunt of the Hurricane shortly (and took the brunt of Rita), most schools are closed in the area.
Worst case scenario for this, and what one model predicts, is that this will turn back out to the Gulf but then sit over New Orleans, giving flooding rain...although New Orleans is in a bit of a deficit, they are not in a drought and definitely do not need flooding rain. The official forecast has a Tropical Depression Humberto somewhere between Meridian, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama by 2 AM Eastern/1 AM Central Saturday morning.
TD-8 is not Ingrid yet, and is expected to gain Tropical Storm status possibly by the 11 AM update. There is going to be some shear this weekend, but if it holds together through Monday, it will be a force to be reckoned with, and could be nearing the north shore of Puerto Rico by Tuesday morning.
Atlanta is back in the worst category of drought (after going down to a level 3 for a week!)....we were supposed to get rain, and we can only hope we'll get rain from Humberto!
MORE UPDATES AS HUMBERTO MOVES!
11:20 EDT UPDATE: Humberto is now in Allen Parish, near Longville, Louisiana (deep in the heart of Arcadiana), and is expected to be near Tuscaloosa by Friday night. In the 10 AM CDT discussion, forecasters are boggled as to how this storm grew SO fast.
No Ingrid yet, and she is really struggling.
Worst case scenario for this, and what one model predicts, is that this will turn back out to the Gulf but then sit over New Orleans, giving flooding rain...although New Orleans is in a bit of a deficit, they are not in a drought and definitely do not need flooding rain. The official forecast has a Tropical Depression Humberto somewhere between Meridian, Mississippi and Mobile, Alabama by 2 AM Eastern/1 AM Central Saturday morning.
TD-8 is not Ingrid yet, and is expected to gain Tropical Storm status possibly by the 11 AM update. There is going to be some shear this weekend, but if it holds together through Monday, it will be a force to be reckoned with, and could be nearing the north shore of Puerto Rico by Tuesday morning.
Atlanta is back in the worst category of drought (after going down to a level 3 for a week!)....we were supposed to get rain, and we can only hope we'll get rain from Humberto!
MORE UPDATES AS HUMBERTO MOVES!
11:20 EDT UPDATE: Humberto is now in Allen Parish, near Longville, Louisiana (deep in the heart of Arcadiana), and is expected to be near Tuscaloosa by Friday night. In the 10 AM CDT discussion, forecasters are boggled as to how this storm grew SO fast.
No Ingrid yet, and she is really struggling.
Labels: Drought, Hurricanes
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