Hurricane Alex

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http://www.wunderground.com/DisplayDisc.asp?DiscussionCode=BRO&StateCode=TX&SafeCityName=McAllen

Here's the local Brownsville forecaster discussion from the National Weather office. It's interesting because they let you know the rationale behind their current forecast.

Here's the 10am thoughts:

quote:
Forecast rationale and confidence: while deep convection has wiped
out with both movement over land and diurnal downward
trends...first daylight visible images show a well organized
circulation continues...and emergence over the southeastern Bay of
Campeche occurs by evening. With high oceanic heat content and low
shear available to tap...a southwestern Gulf hurricane is a good
bet. Beyond this...confidence in ultimate intensity remains
low...and now track confidence has dropped to low as well.


The lowering track confidence is due to a northward shift in
several models that ran earlier this morning. These include the
NAM/HWRF/GFDL...each appearing to have Alex "feel" a bit of the
upper level trough swinging through the nation's midsection and
into the eastern U.S. The million dollar question is whether this
trend continues or backs down later today and tonight. The other
track issue is how much of the trough will impact the system
before it drifts into a slack area and slow down...possibly to a
crawl.
PJYoung
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TKEAg04
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PLEASE go to Mexico! STAY AWAY FROM THE VALLEY!
oldvalleyrat
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I am just starting to recover from the lighning storm that we had a couple of weeks ago. New phones, radios, TV and DirecTV DVR plus mother in law had a strike the burned a tree and put her lights out for 2 days. All I need is more damage.

I guess I am going to put off irrigating the yard for a week. I suppose that the mother in law will be staying with us because our MVEC power seems to stay on when CP&L seems to go out when the wind blows and she gets up tight! Maybe I'll get a new roof out of a hurricane.
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My entire family is in the middle of grain harvest - this is NOT what we need.
scottimus
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i think it will stay south
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This updates every 6 hours.
Matsui
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http://www.stormpulse.com/atlantic?desc=NHC&idx=25&trk=1&sid=201001&lat=24&lon=-94.2&z=3&rd=0&sr=0&cd=0&tk=1&mo=0&ht=0&mg=0&ob=0&wf=1&ml=1&ql=0&sl=0

[This message has been edited by Matsui (edited 6/29/2010 7:46a).]
oldvalleyrat
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Matsui,

Thanks! That is a real good site.

Looks like summer schools and Pan Am have decided to close for the rest of the week. Hopefully Dolly already messed up my yard as much as it could and I won't lose any more trees. I have a guyed 130 foot tower in my back yard so I am always worred that a tree will take out some guy wires or something. If it blows hard enough, it may damage my roof and I can get it replaced! That would be a nice benefit in an otherwise bad situation.

I feel sorry for the famers that are trying to get their crops in. I have always felt that farming is very close to the crap tables in Las Vegas!

Hunker down guys!

[This message has been edited by oldvalleyrat (edited 6/29/2010 3:36p).]
whoop1012
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My firm just shut down for the rest of the week. I'm heading up north to College Station. Everyone be safe.
TKEAg04
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Mine has not yet - they are acting like its nothing and we are all coming in to work tomorrow.
yippee2
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what are the conditions down there now?
PJYoung
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quote:
Area forecast discussion
National Weather Service Brownsville Texas
237 PM CDT Tuesday Jun 29 2010


..Alex edging closer to the coast...


Near term /through 7 PM today/...shower bands will continue through
just before sunset...racing southwest at 25 miles per hour associated with the
distant outer shield of the envelope surrounding Alex. Plenty of
dry pockets between the bands and no one shower tends to last much
more than 5 to 10 minutes...but stronger cells might be dropping
more than a quarter inch in those 5 to 10 minutes. Despite plenty
of afternoon heating...warm core atmosphere not conducive to thunder
but have seen a few strikes here and there so will retain the
shower/thunderstorm wording to close the day.


Plenty of wind kicking up with the rain bands and surrounding
mixing...sustained speeds from the north or northeast running 15 to
25 miles per hour with gusts as high as 38 miles per hour here at the Brownsville
Airport...just under tropical storm force but not out of the
Ordinary in this situation. Temperatures generally range from 90 to
95 but vary greatly with showers dropping briefly into the middle and
upper 80s.

PJYoung
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quote:
Short term /7 PM tonight through 7 am Thursday/...now comes the
tricky part. Alex has tried to organize all afternoon...and a
vigorous burst of morning convection along/east of the center has
been followed by the not too surprising afternoon decrease in
intensity and warming cloud tops. More importantly...the envelope
of dry air continues to show the "ho- ho" effect at this late
stage which is a possible piece of good news regarding future
intensification prior to landfall of the center...as Alex won't
have too much real estate to cross before reaching the coast.
Another possible piece of good news is the west-northwest jog over
the past several hours. Recent dynamic models also suggesting the
west northwest track...so we'll have to see how things play out
over the next 6 to 12 hours to be sure but the trends are good.
Conversely...we have another night of potential steady
intensification ahead based on system continuing in low shear
environment over warm waters and the more typical convective
development that occurs at night.


For now...we've backed down just a hair on total rainfall forecasts
given the disorganization and potential nudging south of the
track...based on HPC guidance which now shows totals in the 4 to 8
range across the northern tier and 6 to 10+ range in the Lower
Valley. Current Flood Watch and information in hurricane local
statement (go to http://weather.Gov/rgv and click on the Banner
headline) cover The Middle Ground but we may slightly adjust
potential threats after the hurricane center update.


As for sensible weather...have pushed up the arrival of squally
showers into Wednesday afternoon and held Wednesday night's
rain/squall forecast alone. Temperatures will be much lower
Wednesday with full cloud cover and frequent rains...and have left
the 80s as we've had for the past day or so.


Impact potential in brief: flooding rains more prevalent in the Rio
Grande Valley and a little less from Falfurrias through Hebbronville.


Tropical storm sustained winds with hurricane force gusts from
Brownsville/Harlingen to the coast...hurricane force sustained winds
possible in the southmost Gulf waters.

scottimus
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who is going surfing?
Madman_90
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Supposed to be heading down to SPI this weekend for family vacation.

Really hoping Alex continues the left turn into Mexico and does minimal (no) damage to the island.
TKEAg04
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It definitely should be at hurricane status later tonight as it has really started getting its act together this afternoon. Looking at satellite pics, it appears to be moving due west, but looks can be deceiving as it is wobbling all over the place. I still think it ends up about 50-100 miles south of the RGV.
scottimus
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where are all the pics dudes?
Walter Kovacs
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nothing interesting in harlingen. it's just dark and wet. nothing wild.
oldvalleyrat
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About the same here in Edinburg. We were out driving around a few minutes ago (about 3:00 p.m.). Went and picked up mother-in-law for the evening. Canals have a lot of water. Very cloudy and breezy...and of course wet. It appears that we have had about 5 inches of rain so far today. We live on a caliche road and it is still in good shape. Channel 5 is doing a pretty good job of covering this storm (no hysterics) and channel 4 is off the air as usual.
Walter Kovacs
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i drove past the arroyo colorado in harlingen and the river is probably up 10 feet
PJYoung
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Yep and we gotta watch the SW gulf again this week.
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