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Tag Archive for 'Texas'

Hurricane Ike Intensifying And Approaching Galveston

Hurricane Ike appears to be strengthening based on the latest radar images.  Very strong thunderstorms are rotating through the northeastern coast of Texas, especially over Galveston.  The center of Ike has become much better defined in the past 30 minutes.  The convection has completely wrapped around Hurricane Ike and has solidified.  The center of Ike [...]

Hurricane Ike To Devastate Houston Late Tonight

 
Hurricane Ike continues to strengthen this morning and will likely reach category 3 strength by this afternoon or early evening.  Hurricane Ike has 105 MPH sustained winds, which is a strong category 2 hurricane.  The size of Hurricane Ike is impressive as the storm takes up about 85% of the Gulf of Mexico this morning. [...]

Evening Thoughts

There’s a lot going on tonight despite the quiet weather over the forecast area right now.  
The moisture from the Southwest Monsoon is really starting to organize into an impressive rain event from the southern Plains to the Ohio Valley this evening.  This moisture will race towards the forecast area over the next 24 hours, [...]

Hurricane Ike Continues To Strengthen Over Gulf Of Mexico

 
Hurricane Ike continues to strengthen this morning with sustained winds of 100 mph.  Hurricane Ike is moving towards much warmer sea surface temperatures this morning.  The current sea surface temperatures are in the mid 80’s, however as Ike moves to the west over the next 12 hours, the hurricane will move over sea surface temperatures [...]

Hurricane Ike Strengthens Over The Gulf Of Mexico

 
Hurricane Ike is now firmly in the Gulf of Mexico and showing signs of strengthening.  Convection continues to rapidly grow around the center of circulation and the central dense overcast is growing larger and more impressive over the last several hours.  The upper level environment is extremely favorable as a ridge over the Gulf Coast [...]

Hurricane Ike Moves Just South Of Cuba, Threat For Texas Coast

 
Hurricane Ike has once again been moving further south than what was forecasted, which has allowed Hurricane Ike to move over the waters south of the Island of Cuba and the Island of Youth (yes, I checked it is actually called that according to google maps and Wikipedia).  As a result, the interaction of the [...]

Hurricane Ike Weakens Over Cuba, Targets Gulf Coast

 
All eyes are obviously on Hurricane Ike this morning and will likely continue to be on the minds of the public along the Gulf Coast through this week.  
The good news with Hurricane Ike is that the hurricane is moving over central Cuba and weakening rapidly from a category 4 to category 2 hurricane in [...]

Hurricane Ike Threatens Cuba

 
Hurricane Ike is once again a major Category 4 Hurricane that is currently impacting the southern Islands of the Bahamas.  This dangerous and deadly hurricane is on a track to slam into northeastern Cuba and track along the northern side Cuba over the next three days.  Those living in Cuba are in for a very [...]

The Future Of Gustav

Gustav made land fall yesterday to the southwest of New Orleans and has now moved into western Louisiana.  Hanna will slowly move over northeastern Texas before being picked up by a developing cold front over the Great Lakes and Mid West.  I’m expecting very heavy rain to continue to fall over much of northeastern Texas, [...]

Hurricane Gustav Makes Landfall Over Louisiana

Current radar and satellite pictures show Gustav is slightly strengthening off the coast of Louisiana just south of Golden Meadow and Lafourche Parish.  Gustav will make land fall later this morning somewhere over Terrebonne Parish, which has a lot less population.  While New Orleans will still experience significant flooding and a high storm surge of [...]