Weird Fall Weather

Well here it is October & there is still summer weather down here in the south! The high 4 today is going to be in the 90s!!! & its suppose to be FALL!!! This is some weird weather we are having down here.! Its been this way for a good i would say 2 weeks!!!! Well we would just see how long this weather last cause im loving it! lol
Lu

Tropical Depression 2

UPDATE:
Kevin Roth - Lead Meteorologist
Tropical Depression #2 formed in the southern Gulf of Mexico late Wednesday evening. As of 10:15am CDT Thursday the center of this poorly-organized system made landfall along the south end of South Padre Island, Texas, packing maximum winds (mainly in gusts) of 35 mph.
I found a map showing the landfall of the TD 2 :

LandFall  Infor Map

Time 4:00pm
Weather : heavy pour down!!!
Time 3:00pm
Weather : Cloudy gray skies  w/ light wind - a moment ago it was pouring down hard!
Time 2:00pm
Weather : meduim dark gray storm clouds moving through w/ light winds
Time : 1:00pm
Weather : Cloudy sky is light gray, light winds

Time : 12:07pm
Weather : light rain  sky is a light grayish

location : MidTown - Houston TX
Time : 10:59am
Weather : overcast & sun . It looks like the sun is going break through eventually.
I will be updating this post every hour of weather conditions & new info in the TD 2!!!
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Kevin Roth - Lead Meteorologist from The Weather Channel says


( " The biggest threat from the system will be heavy rain. The system should take a path just to the north of Hurricane Alex from last week. Rainfall of 3 to 6 inches with isolated amounts near 8 inches falling on ground that is already saturated will lead to an increased flooding threat throughout northern Mexico and southern Texas."  )
 
 Its going to be a repeat of last Friday. Flooding is going to be a major issues since the ground is already saturated by Hurricane Alex last Friday!
Here are a Few maps to give u an idea of how big this TD is & the power it was.

Projected Path of TD 2

Storm Track

Live satellite Image of TD 2

Better view of the TD 2

Lu

Stormy 2 weeks!!!

For almost 2 weeks now its been nothing but rain rain & more rain which in fact is cuasing flooding in the southeast part of Texas.  Gee when are we going to see the summer hot sun again??? This hurricane season is starting off crazy!!! i mean look we already had our first hurricane of the season & there is another triopcal depression in the Gulf already & who knows it could upgrade to a hurricane!!!
Lu

Storm trouble

There seems to be once more trouble in the Gulf again !!! There is a system that is forming the same way that hurricane Alex took from the Caribbean !!!! I will keep ya posted!!!!
UPDATE
7/5/10 - Now they are saying that the system in the west Caribbean has a 30% possibility of becoming a depression or a tropical storm & it will be in the Gulf by tomorrow plus they will send out a plane into it to see if there is any rotation at all.

Here is a map that shows the exect location of the low PRESSURE. The system is the orange circle.

Lu

Treacherous Flooding

I woke up at 6:30 expecting to hear down pour of rain but i didn't hear it. So the 1st thing i did was turning on the TV channel 11. I sat there while i started my laptop & checking my e-mail & facebook at the same time listening to the news to see if there are any flooded roads. To my surprise there wasn't even one street that was flooded!! (But later in the day i will find out that there was city-wide flooding!OMG) So it started to pour so i ran to my room & got dressed & got everything ready & right when i was going to the car & i unlocked the car i heard a thunder then the next moment i know its pouring down & im getting wet & i got in & the wind was blowing in to the car so i was getting even more wet OMG!!!  It was hard to see cause the rain was pouring down so hard that it was like white sheets of rain!!! Im thinking ok i can deal with this but i had to get on the overpass & it was pouring down like that!!!! I didn't think i could drive in that kind of weather but i remembered that i drove in worse weather conditions!!! SO i got to work & through the day the sky was getting dark & darker then it poured down for hours off & on!!! Then at lunch i heard something that we were going to get off early! So i walked to my co-worker's desk & asked her & she told me that we were getting off at 3pm cause of the severe weather. Then i returned to my desk & continued what i was doing before lunch. Then all sudden i heard my cell phone ringing! i usually don't answer it cause of the cams in the office BUT since of the severe weather i answered it. It was my mom. She told me that our street was flooded & the neighborhood as well! &  me to see if i could get off work a little bit earlier then when they originally going to let us off! SO i talked to my boss & she understood & allowed me to get a early start! so i rushed to my desk & of course i had papers everywhere & i still had to shut down my computer . SO i did it very fast. I started to drive home it as all fine & there were periods of time when driving home that had fast down pours real heavy ones.! I was able to get to 59 & on 59 with no problems & got off fine. Then when i got into my city i put on my emgeremy lights & i was looking at the drains & they were all gonna over flow!!!! I turned down the street that i always do when i come home everyday. I saw that down the road a truck with orange light & the part of the road i as driving down was flooded so they redirected us on the other side of the road. Then i was trying to see if the other cars where going down the road instead of turning around but to my luck i was totally wrong so i turned around & try another way to get into my area . I got in & i was almost & i was coming to this intersection & noticed that it was flooded i started getting nervous cause i got in deep water in the past & the engine light came on. Anyways so when it was my turn i drove in the middle of the intersection then i was home free but when i can to my street i was prayin that the street wasn't flooded & to my surprise it wasn't!!! It was real crazy day!

Lu

2010 Tornado Status

Hi Ya'll I found this article on weather.com & though everyone that loves tornadoes / severe storms would be interested in this!

 

2010 TORNADO STATS THROUGH MAY

Dr. Forbes, Severe Weather Expert, The Weather Channel

Jun. 26, 2010 5:46 pm ET

Tornado statistics are provided by The Weather Channel's severe weather expert Dr. Greg Forbes who closely analyzes and documents confirmed tornadoes throughout the year.


2010 Forbes' Tornado Count :

•  January 28
• February 1
• March 30
• April 137
• May 258

January through May 454




2010


10-Year Average :

• January 22
• February 37
• March 90
• April 163
• May 291

January through May 603




2010


Departure from Average :

• January 27%
• February -97%
• March -67%
• April -16%
• May -11%

January through May -25%


June Tornado Stats :

• June has averaged 217 tornadoes over the past 10 years through 2010.
• There were 270 tornadoes in June 2009.
• June 1992 had the most on record, with 399.

2010 Killer Tornadoes

• There have been 7 killer tornadoes in the United States through May 31, 2010 leading to 18 deaths.
• Below is a list of the killer tornadoes including the location, strength of tornado and attributed fatalities.
• March 10 - Pearson, Cleburne County, Arkansas - EF2, 1 killed
• April 24 - Yazoo County (4), Choctaw County (5) and Holmes County, Mississippi (1); total 10
• April 30 - Van Buren County, Arkansas (1) EF3
• May 2 - Lafayette County, Mississippi (1) EF2
• May 2 - Benton County, Mississippi (2) and Hardeman County, Tennessee (1) from EF3 tornado
• May 10 - Oklahoma County, Oklahoma (1) from EF3
• May 10 - Cleveland County, Oklahoma (1) from EF3

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Lu

Whats Left of Hurricane Alex

All of hurricane or shall i say tropical storm /  depression alex is left is just rain rain & more rain!!!!
Even though we weren't in the way / target of the hurricane or storm we still got slammed with the rain in which it created a minor choas which led to flooding all over houston & in some spots of sugarland / missouri city TX. There is a flash flood watch until 4pm today.
Lu

Alex Downgraded

Hurricane Alex has now downgraded to a tropical storm since early this morning.
I will keep ya'll posted on the conditions at my location - ( midtown - houston tx)
I though i would wake up to news on channel 11 tell me there is flooding going on all around houston! But to my surprise there wasn't any flooding going on! But now that i see the color of the sky im beginning to wonder if there will be flooding happening soon! Gee i hope not cause when there is the traffic is all backed up & heck i have kuk sool won tonite!!!! OMG!!!
12:45pm
       The sky is dark green grayish color & is pouring down real hard.
Lu

Hurricane Alex

Its official the first hurricane of the season!
Tropical Storm Alex became a hurricane as of 10pm CDT Tuesday nite.
Hurricane Alex will hit 100miles south of Brownsville TX.
Alex is either going to hit inland tonite or tomorrow. But the thing that I have just learned is this: In these bands isolated tornadoes will be possible anywhere within 50 – 100 miles of the southeast Texas Coast!
My location is Midtown - Houston TX and I will be updating this post through the day on the hurricane as well as the current weather conditions in my location. The location.
The hurricane is going to make landfall @ 7pm tonite!!!!
There are already reports to tornadoes & flooded roads!! In Galveston & Mexico !!! The hurricane is a CAT 2!!!!
Weather

12:47pm
      Light rain w/ light winds. - nothing to much to be a big threat to get concerned about.

3:30pm
      light gray skies w/ light wind. Around the early hour of 3 we did have a moderate rain shower w/ no thunder.

4:30pm
     very light gray skies & windy.

Here i have found a more recent map of Hurricane Alex.

The map above is continuously updated on the current weather as u can see.

Here is a map below that was hurricane ALEX at CAT2 -

Lu

Tropical Storm ~ Hurrcaine Alex

About 2 weeks ago the meteorologists were not real concerned about this low pressure system but they kept their eyes on it. & what do u know. It comes in to the Caribbean & into the gulf & now they are saying that it will become or could become a hurricane before it makes landfall & that’s all we need with that oil spoil but luckily its steering far away from it. So I don’t think it will spread any farther than it is already doing.

I would really like to post better maps like the ones on weather.com but for some reason i do not know how to in the new draft posting in blogger. So here are some maps that i have found.
I heard when i was driving into work that the (now) tropical storm will become a hurricane but not a CAT 1 BUT a CAT2!!!

Lu
Where is a really cool website that i myself just found! its totally cool! : Storm Pulse
These two maps below are continuously updated on the current weather conditions :

Visible Statllite Image of Hurrcaine Alex

Projected Path of Hurrciane Alex

 Tropical Storm alex 7 hrs before becoming a Hurricane CAT1

Here is map of the projected path of the hurricane.

Tornadoes on a Partly Cloudy day???

Its soo odd how the weather service can put out a tornado watch when its soo nice outdoors!!! When i read the e-mail at work that one of my co-workers sent out i wanted to burst out laughing but I didn’t but I did chuckle a few times though!

But I figured it out it hasn’t come into Houston yet!. Its coming from the northwest up near Conroe is & College Station area is. But i bet ya all the storm chasers / spotters here in Houston ( and in the nearby counties & cities ) are jumping up & down & screaming yahoo!!!
I can't wait to get my training done & be an offical storm spotter along the sides of other storm spotters
I'll keep ya'll posted

                                                       Updated Map at 2:10pm

                             Updated at 2:23pm

Here is a link for US Severe Storm Alerts .  But remember that its listed by COUNTIES NOT CITIES!

The national Weather Service extended the tornado watch for Houston / Galveston TX until 4pm this afternoon.

UPDATE  We here in Houston are out of the Tornado watch as well as the severe weather.

Hurricane Season 2010

From all the wicky weather we been having ( abnormal winter to record breaking summer heat when its not even summer yet! I heard that we are going to have a very busy or very active seaon this year! If u are a storm chaser that likes to chase or track hurricanes then this is your yr to do your thing!!!!
Lu

Severe Thunder Storm

On Monday nite I drove to my Kuk Sool Won school for class that nite & as I drove to my class I noticed grayish clouds moving in & didn’t think twice about it. I was getting ready for class & my sensei had me meet someone new but later did I know she was a returning student! We talked up a storm. Before the class started I noticed the once gray clouds now a dark navy blueish grayish clouds as it was coming in. So we were warming up & a lighting blot shot through the sky. We were doing a light jog & I couldn’t keep my eyes off the storm clouds & I almost ran in the to poll! Now we have mirrors on one wall which shows the parking lot. & through the class I saw every so often lighting shooting through the clouds. By the end of class there were more lighting strikes then when we were warming up!! It was very pretty to watch. So I decided that when I got home I would try to capture the lighting in a photo. The end results weren’t what I though they would be. Its more difficult then fireworks!
Lu

Storm Chaser Day Dreamin

I wonder if there are for fact storm chasers or tornado chasers out there that do actually what the one in twister.
I guess i like it when its really storming outside specifically severe storms like thunder and tornadoes when everyone is in hidding & ur out in the storm and facing the storm face to face!! I love the fear of not knowing what the storm is going to do plus the audio adrenaline the experience gives you while u are out in it!! Yeah!!! I guess i can only live it up in my imagination but in real life i really do fear those storms.

Lu

New Hobbies !!

Im soo excited cause im going to become a SKYWARN Spotter. What that is – is a storm spotter.
U just have to take a class and then u are certified . The when u do spot severe weather u can report it then what the skw does is it reports it to the national weather service!
Well I know for sure that im going to be a spotter & can’t wait until I take my class & all.
I hope I don’t have to report any tornadoes right in front of my house lol!!!
I have also been thinking of becoming a HAM but I haven’t made my decision on it yet.
It would be pretty cool to get on the radio a two-way radio & be talking something like this:


This is Lu over this blah over Is there any tornadoes over there over. No lu there isn’t. over. Code Red blah get out of there. Roger that Lu im out of there. Over that’s good. Over & out.



Something like that! I just how the chasers talked back & forward on the 2-way radio like on the movie twister!
Well that’s it for now. Over & out.
Lu

Tornadoes!!! This Early?????

What a day this has been  both Florida & north carolina had tornadoes ripping through these states!!!!
North Carolina had 8 tornadoes & Florida only had one!

Cold - Hot Weather

It seems like every week it starts off cold & by the weekend it hot enough to tan outdoors! Whats up with this weather?!?!? We’re even to get snow in Texas tomorrow!!! I hope we don’t get it to mad. Its only for the northern counties but we here around Houston might see some snow but hopefully people will take precautions when out on the roads!!!!

Blizzards & Earthquake

Just a few minutes ago there was an earthquake in Illinois. It was an 3.8 @ 9:95am on Feb 10 2010.

Before the earthquake happened in Illinois. In Washington D.C. , New York & Pennsylvania there was a major blizzard!!! Then another one came & then the 3rd on hit today! & shut down the D.C. area for 3 days!! & its almost spring too!!!!

I hope all my fam & friends that are up in that area are OK & are doing fine i pray! I haven't see something like this in my entire life before!!!!!

Crazy Weather

I don't know about you but down south we are having some crazy weather its like one day its hot or well warm enough to tan outside & get a good tan & the next moment its all cold!!!!!! So today its warm enough to go outside & tan if the sun is ever planning to come out but then we are headed into move winter like weather!!! This is soo crazy!!!!!!