July: Week of 25th - Don Near S TX/ Hot & Dry

[srainhoutx]

I'd keep an eye to our N and NE as the afternoon wears on. A nice boundary is evident on radar visible imagery. Also another convective complex is firing in N LA...

[biggerbyte]

Indeed!

http://wxweb.meteostar.com/models/noaap ... /SYS/COMP/

Notice the ULL in the Gulf, as well as the activity to our north and northeast. LA may indeed be a breeding ground for what is to come around here later on.

[biggerbyte]

KSHV radar in shreveport depicts the activity very nicely.

[tireman4]

I officially hate summer. I am sorry Wxman57, but I am worn out from these temperatures. Goodness gracious. I can take 1-3 degrees above normal for maybe 10-15 days during the summer, but every day 5-7 degrees above normal. Sheesh.

[jgreak]

A certain tv weather personality just said that he didn't think those storms we are seeing entering liberty county right now would make it here - they only look to be increasing in intensity to me, surely with all the heating and sunshine we have had today we would have a pretty good chance, right?

[tireman4]

Well the NWS did not think so either earlier today...


NEAR-STATIONARY CLUSTERS OF SHOWERS AND EMBEDDED STORMS OVER WESTERN
LOUISIANA AND FAR OFFSHORE WATERS...OR SURROUNDING THE CWA ...THAT
HAVE FORMED AHEAD OF AN ADVANCING SOUTHEASTERN U.S. PLAINS MID-LEVEL
TROUGH. REGION CURRENTLY FALLING IN BETWEEN ANY PRECIPITATION...OR
IS WEDGED BETWEEN THIS TROUGH AND A WEAK UPPER LEVEL NORTH CENTRAL
GULF LOW. ALTHOUGH THIS LOW IS AIDING IN DRAGGING THIS BOUNDARY SOUTHWARD
TOWARDS THE NORTHERN FA...SUBSIDENCE ALONG ITS WESTERN FLANK MAY BE
A RAIN INHIBITOR. TODAY`S DEEPER MOISTURE SEEMS TO NOT BE MUCH OF A
PLAYER AS GENERAL SUBSIDENCE FROM THE COLORADO-CENTERED 5H RIDGE WINS
OUT ONCE AGAIN.


http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php ... glossary=1

[Rip76]

I agree with that certain personality.

I see it splitting up already before it gets to Houston.

Typical.

[JulieC]

I officially hate summer. I am sorry Wxman57, but I am worn out from these temperatures. Goodness gracious. I can take 1-3 degrees above normal for maybe 10-15 days during the summer, but every day 5-7 degrees above normal. Sheesh.

Count me in on that! I was born and raised here, and I have lived here all of my life, so you would think I would be used to hot and humid summer, but this is getting ridiculous! Day after day after day of nearly and above 100 degrees. UGH, when will it stop?

Julie

[wxman57]

I officially hate summer. I am sorry Wxman57, but I am worn out from these temperatures. Goodness gracious. I can take 1-3 degrees above normal for maybe 10-15 days during the summer, but every day 5-7 degrees above normal. Sheesh.

Count me in on that! I was born and raised here, and I have lived here all of my life, so you would think I would be used to hot and humid summer, but this is getting ridiculous! Day after day after day of nearly and above 100 degrees. UGH, when will it stop?

Julie

The temps are fine, I'd take 95-100 degrees any day over a high in the 50s. But it would be nice to see something fall from the sky every once in a while.

[biggerbyte]

Dang, it is not raining all over my house right now. Somebody is clapping their hands real loud outside too. Pesky amateurs we are calling for rain when the pros say no way.. Porter gets it again. Folks, lookout for homegrown activity to form over counties south and southwest of me as the outflow boundary pushes ahead this evening.

Gotta love it..

BB

[BoonDog]

woohooo my yard is flooding

[jasons2k]

2nd time in three days my house and surrounding area got dumped on. I can't hardly believe it....the trees are happy for a change!!

[unome]

I hear thunder, I see black clouds - PLEASE rain http://imapweather.com/fullscreen/?ZIP= ... MP_UNITS=f

[tireman4]

Nada for us. Zilch, Nope, Dry as bone...

[unome]

for Wed-Fri http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hgx/?n=briefing

nothing here yesterday but a very light sprinkle

[srainhoutx]

Showers are developing NE of the Metro area rather early in the day. Hopefully further development can get going along the sea breeze as the day unfolds...

[sleetstorm]

I am getting rain here in Baytown. Woohoo! Well, very briefly. Hey, what is the status of the wildfires here in Texas?

[wxman57]

Showers are popping up all around us now. I think many areas will see some rain today. Fires are mostly out, thanks to that band of heavy rain a week or so ago.

[tireman4]

Partly Cloudy and Hot here in Gulfgate......sigh....

[srainhoutx]

For our neighbors to the E...

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA
106 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2011

LAZ027>033-041>045-051>055-TXZ180>182-201-215-216-070000-
VERNON-RAPIDES-AVOYELLES-BEAUREGARD-ALLEN-EVANGELINE-ST. LANDRY-
CALCASIEU-JEFFERSON DAVIS-ACADIA-LAFAYETTE-UPPER ST. MARTIN-
CAMERON-VERMILION-IBERIA-ST. MARY-LOWER ST. MARTIN-TYLER-JASPER-
NEWTON-HARDIN-JEFFERSON-ORANGE-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LEESVILLE...ALEXANDRIA...MARKSVILLE...
DERIDDER...OAKDALE...VILLE PLATTE...OPELOUSAS...LAKE CHARLES...
JENNINGS...CROWLEY...LAFAYETTE...ST. MARTINVILLE...CAMERON...
ABBEVILLE...NEW IBERIA...MORGAN CITY...WOODVILLE...JASPER...
NEWTON...LUMBERTON...BEAUMONT/PORT ARTHUR...ORANGE
106 PM CDT WED JUL 6 2011

...TROPICAL FUNNEL CLOUDS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON...

A VERY MOIST AND UNSTABLE TROPICAL AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE
ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON...WHILE THE VERTICAL WIND PROFILE
OVER THE AREA IS LIGHT AND VARIABLE. THESE CONDITIONS ARE
FAVORABLE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF TROPICAL FUNNEL CLOUDS...
ESPECIALLY WHERE RAIN-COOLED BOUNDARIES...KNOWN AS OUTFLOW
BOUNDARIES...AND THE SEA BREEZE COLLIDE.

THESE TROPICAL FUNNEL CLOUDS ARE USUALLY SHORT-LIVED AND DO NOT
REACH THE GROUND. IF THE FUNNEL CLOUD BECOMES MORE SEVERE AND
REACHES THE GROUND...MINOR DAMAGE MAY OCCUR...AND A TORNADO WARNING
WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED.