Tropical Depression Two Along South Texas Coast
Hello everybody, this is Senior Meteorologist Shaun Tanner writing Dr. Masters' blog while he is on vacation.
Tropical Depression Two formed overnight in the northern Bay of Campeche and is now making landfall along the extreme south coast of Texas. A hurricane hunter was sent into the system and found a low-level circulation. While there are some reports of tropical storm strength winds in the squalls of the system, there is just not enough evidence to upgrade the storm to tropical storm strength before landfall.
The satellite representation of the depression is quite impressive as half of the depression is now over landfall. Brownsville radar currently is showing the effects of the depression with heavy rain and thunderstorms through much of southern Texas.
The biggest lingering effect from the depression will be to prolong the devastating flooding that has been ongoing in southern Texas and northeast Mexico. Not including the rain that will fall due to the depression, over the past 7 days, the area near Houston has received over 10 inches of rain, while some inland areas of Texas has received over 4 inches of rain. The problem gets worse in the Mexican state of Coahuila near the Texas border has received upwards of 20 inches of rain in the past 7 days due to substantial moisture pouring into the area.
This surging watershed has caused massive flooding throughout the region, with the area near Laredo, Texas and Nuevo Laredo, Mexico being the hardest hit. The flooding has caused the major border crossing between those two cities to be closed as the Rio Grande surged and threatened to top the crossing's bridge. A contingent of Mexican officials, including the mayor of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, touring the flooding damage in an airplane crashed Wednesday, killing all six onboard. Evacuations on both sides of the border has forced tens of thousands of people out of their homes, while over 100,000 people were without water service. The flooding problem is extra dangerous because swollen dams had to release some of their water downstream into areas that towns that have already been swamped. It was even reported that one of these releases by the National Water Commission of Mexico was the largest emergency water release in the country.
Needless to say, the rain from Tropical Depression Two will only further the flooding problems in southern Texas and northeast Mexico. Figure 3 shows the severe map and the greens represent Flood Watches and Warnings. You can see almost the entire states of Texas and Oklahoma are under these watches and warnings in anticipation of several inches of rain from the remnants of Tropical Depression Two.
Figure 1. Satellite loop of Tropical Depression Two.
Figure 2. Storm-centered radar as depression makes landfall.
Figure 3. Severe map.
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I am stunned that he hasn't been banned in a more permanent way; 5 in 5 days?? That is an insult to this blog
maybe see you later.
(depends on what you are cooking, Amy. LOL)
Did you ever wonder how many email accounts he must have?? Don't you have to have a new email account to register for the blog? You can't sign up using any previous email account --- I think.
Hi pottery
It flooded today in Maraval/diego martin.If it rains tomorrow it will be 7 days in a row with rain.
This doesn't help my sleep at night
How bad is the flooding in your country?
gmail accounts are a dime a dozen,probably what he's up too,he's everywhere even was on the Barometer bob show and got me banned from posting questions,because I pointed out that he was a "troll from WU"...:p
Might, I know the convection over Belize earlier is being pulled north if it was 1 or 2 degrees higher it would probably get pulled north quicker, but I think as it heads near the coast of Nicaragua it will get pulled north more
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Written by Scott Metsker
Monday, 23 November 2009 20:43
Greetings Bloggers! It has been awhile. I haven't had time to write due to so much work both business and research. I wanted to put this blog out to go over some of the research I have been working on and my thoughts on this year's LRC.
Let me start this blog with a big thank you for all that visit. Over the last year, our reach and viewership has broaden immensely! We have daily readers in nearly every state and quite a few countries abroad. Even now, we still are finding about a 30% rate of new readers day after day!
Ok, so lets get to it, shall we?
Our team has been doing a great deal of analysis and work on this year's LRC. Along with that, I have been working on research to better understand how the LRC fits in the greater scheme of things already researched or in conjunction with current projects. It seems likely that there is research already done that will help provide further clarity on the mechanics of the LRC and how it may work or be measured. While I first was intrigued by much of the human pattern recognition of map to map analysis, I wanted to dig deeper to see if there were other empirical ways to represent the LRC.
ps - Warmest June - Key West and Marathon
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Oh Yea, also the SW Caribbean, though more organized its running out of real estate.Evening to you MH09
Smack into Nicaragua looks like, but no way and never , well I try to avoid those words , they've smacked me in the face many times.
It looks like Cape Cod's micro-climate is at it again. Time and again the forecast has been for rain, and it dissipates prior to coming here, just like last summer only worse, as now we have the heat as well. Notice how even the light rain just vanishes prior to hitting the Cape, which is the elbow thing sticking out under Boston. It can be raining or snowing over the bridge in Plymouth, and we can be sunny, and vice versa.
Here's hoping that band of storms to the West dumps on us, but I've seen this trend time and time again, as the rain will go to our North and West, and die out before arrival, a repeating weather pattern for the summer months here on Cape Cod. We have fires in our conservation areas in Mashpee, and lawns are just brown everywhere. Greenhead flies have hatched a month early as it's been so dry. Although our kettle ponds had high water levels in May, the evaporation occurring now is bringing them right down.
If this trend continues for the summer the implications to the area are dire indeed. I'll be watching this and reporting as I did last year. I'm hoping for Murphy's law to kick in, and that we get soaked just because I posted this.
and no bonus points for cuckoo for Coco Balls..deal? heheheh
"A six-man crew hired by the U.S. Coast Guard began rolling down the beach Wednesday on all-terrain vehicles, gathering tar balls from Jetty Park to 16th Street South in Cocoa Beach.
The tar first was reported Tuesday, and officials initially said it might have come from a shrimp boat that sank in the area in mid-May.
But a trajectory analysis of the wreck by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration found the ship’s fuel wouldn’t likely affect the shore, said Chris Evanson, a Coast Guard spokesman in Jacksonville.
Officials will continue to investigate."
You cannot permanently ban anyone.
Can you provide me a link so I can try it? Thanks :o)!
Googlechrome is very fast, you can always highlight copy and paste!
I could only imagine what this wave would do if it was moving into the NW Caribbean...
Downloaded it into my computer. It is even faster than Firefox 3.3.6 :o)!!
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