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