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Kingwood36
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Ive only gotten 0.50” of rain since yesterday morning here in Beaumont. Im hoping we get a couple inches out of beta. If things continue trending the way they are, we may not get any rain much less a leaf blow by...
Mike
Beaumont, TX
(IH-10 & College Street)
Beaumont, TX
(IH-10 & College Street)
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Kingwood36
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Training band is setting up over my area now
Was just about to post that. Little bit of lightning in it as well. Looks like it's trying to get a few little squall bands going on eastern side. Will have to see how they progress inland.
Houstonians: is it too much to ask for a couple of inches of rain if a landfalling tropical storm makes landfall at almost the perfect spot to our southwest and almost stalls?
The weather gods: Why....yes. Yes, it IS too much to ask! No rain for you!! Now...get back to work!!
(I realize this is a bit premature and we may get our couple of inches the next few days...but this is turning-out to be a weaksauce storm so far).
The weather gods: Why....yes. Yes, it IS too much to ask! No rain for you!! Now...get back to work!!
(I realize this is a bit premature and we may get our couple of inches the next few days...but this is turning-out to be a weaksauce storm so far).
Perfectjasons2k wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:05 am Houstonians: is it too much to ask for a couple of inches of rain if a landfalling tropical storm makes landfall at almost the perfect spot to our southwest and almost stalls?
The weather gods: Why....yes. Yes, it IS too much to ask! No rain for you!! Now...get back to work!!
(I realize this is a bit premature and we may get our couple of inches the next few days...but this is turning-out to be a weaksauce storm so far).
Inland folks may be saying that but this is setting up to be a pretty significant event for a large section of the coastal areas of the mid and upper Texas coast with the duration of surge...
You're not wrong though. Conversely, see Imelda. No happy medium. The storm surge on the other hand, wow.jasons2k wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:05 am Houstonians: is it too much to ask for a couple of inches of rain if a landfalling tropical storm makes landfall at almost the perfect spot to our southwest and almost stalls?
The weather gods: Why....yes. Yes, it IS too much to ask! No rain for you!! Now...get back to work!!
(I realize this is a bit premature and we may get our couple of inches the next few days...but this is turning-out to be a weaksauce storm so far).
yeah, I don't mean to downplay the surge even. But the rain has been lacking for inland areas. One thing I have observed with this storm is that both my air temperatures and dew points have been running about 10 degrees cooler than anything I've experienced before with a tropical cyclone. It feels more like a subtropical system with the dry air, lower temps, lower dew points, and the large, spread-out wind field.
Oh, and the PWAT map from the SPC shows a huge tongue of drier air wrapping-in on the storm's eastern side, downstream of me.
Oh, and the PWAT map from the SPC shows a huge tongue of drier air wrapping-in on the storm's eastern side, downstream of me.
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Its amazing how little effects we've had (jury out on Beta still) with 4 tropical systems in our area this year.jasons2k wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:05 am Houstonians: is it too much to ask for a couple of inches of rain if a landfalling tropical storm makes landfall at almost the perfect spot to our southwest and almost stalls?
The weather gods: Why....yes. Yes, it IS too much to ask! No rain for you!! Now...get back to work!!
(I realize this is a bit premature and we may get our couple of inches the next few days...but this is turning-out to be a weaksauce storm so far).
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Kingwood36
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We have a good band over us here in brazoria country coming down pretty strong
They get cyclones even in the deserts of Arabia. There's nothing special in the dry air department - I'd place more blame on general US weather patterns (with constant, never-ending jet-streams and ULLs even into summer).
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Kingwood36
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Damn this feeder band aint playing i just got a guest of wind that I know was stronger than 35mph...the rain is coming down in sheets!
Edit: there goes mly direct tv satellite dish off the side of my roof
Edit: there goes mly direct tv satellite dish off the side of my roof
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Yeah, the ingestion of massive dry air at mid-levels is just killing inland rain chances and bands of Zombie Beta.
Rain and surge expected near the coast and the center. Otherwise, not much for everyone else. Just a random zombie band periodically.
The breeze had picked up earlier when a zombie band came through and dropped about 0.1 inch. 20 G30 mph. Now about 10-15 mph. out of the ENE.
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/c ... &length=24
Rain and surge expected near the coast and the center. Otherwise, not much for everyone else. Just a random zombie band periodically.
The breeze had picked up earlier when a zombie band came through and dropped about 0.1 inch. 20 G30 mph. Now about 10-15 mph. out of the ENE.
https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/c ... &length=24
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Time to cut the cord!Kingwood36 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:52 am Damn this feeder band aint playing i just got a guest of wind that I know was stronger than 35mph...the rain is coming down in sheets!
Edit: there goes mly direct tv satellite dish off the side of my roof
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Kingwood36
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Beta did it for me lolDoctorMu wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:55 amTime to cut the cord!Kingwood36 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:52 am Damn this feeder band aint playing i just got a guest of wind that I know was stronger than 35mph...the rain is coming down in sheets!
Edit: there goes mly direct tv satellite dish off the side of my roof
I’m anxiously awaiting that shield of rain here in Richmond.Kingwood36 wrote: ↑Mon Sep 21, 2020 10:43 am We have a good band over us here in brazoria country coming down pretty strong
Kidding aside, I am very glad we had the dry air and SW shear. This could have been a very serious event for the Middle and Upper TX Coast.Looks like a long period of training bands from the South Loop down to the coast.
Looking at the visible loops:
I don't think I've ever seen a storm making landfall on the Texas coast, and almost all of the clouds were over land, and to the east of the storm there was more sun than clouds over the Gulf. It's in reverse. That dry air is something else.
I don't think I've ever seen a storm making landfall on the Texas coast, and almost all of the clouds were over land, and to the east of the storm there was more sun than clouds over the Gulf. It's in reverse. That dry air is something else.