Month: August 2017
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Potential Cyclone Ten Gets a Bit Stronger as it Hugs South Carolina Coast
Winds Have Increased; Gusty Winds and Heavy Rains Along South Carolina Coast As we continue to watch the continuing saga with Harvey in not only Texas, but also Louisiana now, Hurricaneville is also monitoring Potential Cyclone Ten, which is yet to acquire enough tropical characteristics to become a tropical cyclone. Winds have increased a little…
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The Harvey Saga Continues As Storm Moves Out Over Water Again
The Relentless Storm Regaining Strength Again From Warm Waters of Gulf The City of Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States, is in a state of desperate paralysis as flood waters continue to rise from torrential rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey. Once a Category Four Hurricane prior to landfall down the Texas coast…
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Watching Potential Cyclone Ten off Southeast Coast
Invest 92L Getting Its Act Together, and Could Be Irma Within Five Days While the catastrophic flooding is taking place in Southeastern Texas from Tropical Storm Harvey on Sunday, the Atlantic Tropics continue to stir up as Invest 92L is getting its act together. The National Hurricane Center has noticed, and issued its first advisory…
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Catastrophe Unfolding in Southeastern Texas
As Bands of Rain Continue to Pour In Houston Area, Historic Flood Builds Over the past several days, I have woken up in the middle of the night, but at about 3:00 AM this morning, there was a different feeling that I had. Once I took a look at my Twitter and Facebook feeds on…
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Still Watching Disturbed Weather Over Florida
With Harvey Getting All the Attention, Invest 92L Can’t Be Forgotten Although Harvey has moved inland, and has been downgraded to a Tropical Storm over Eastern Texas, it will still be a news story for the next several days as it slows down to a crawl, and dumps torrential rains over the region. Nevertheless, we…
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The Real Problem Begins as Harvey Weakens to Tropical Storm
The Focus with Storm Now Goes to Heavy Rain and Flooding Late Friday night, Harvey came ashore as a Category Four Hurricane near the town of Rockport at about 10:00 PM CDT, or about 11:00 PM EDT. Wind gusts in Rockport were as high as 132 miles per hour, and the devastation in the town…
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Harvey Getting Stronger As It Reaches Finish Line
Storm Intensifies to Category Four Intensity with 130 MPH Winds Hurricaneville continues to track Hurricane Harvey as it continues to ramble toward landfall along the Texas Coast to the north of Corpus Christi. Within the past few minutes, the National Hurricane Center issued another update on the position and intensity of Hurricane Harvey. The scenario…
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Hurricane Harvey Continues to Close in on Texas
Pressures Continue to Fall; Storm Becomes First Major Hurricane of 2017 Hurricaneville continues to monitor conditions along the Texas coast from Brownsville to Galveston as Hurricane Harvey, the third hurricane of the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season, continues to edge closer to the coastline in the Lone Star State, and has now strengthened into the season’s…
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Harvey Bears Down on the Texas Coast
Storm Poised to be 1st Major Hurricane to Make Landfall in U.S. Since 2005 Over the past 24 hours since my last blog post on Harvey, the storm has not only become the 2017 Atlantic Hurricane Season’s third hurricane, but it has become a strong Category Two system on the Saffir-Simpson Scale, and could be…
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Invest 92L Could Develop into a Problem for Eastern Seaboard
While Harvey Threatens Texas, East Coast Needs to Monitor 92L The big story in the Atlantic Tropics is Tropical Storm Harvey, which has been rapidly deepening, and is likely to become a major hurricane prior to landfall. Harvey, which still only has winds of 65 miles per hour, but has a pressure of 982 millibars,…