The person blaming the late warning on the mayor in the comments is an idiot. This thing's already stronger than anyone could have reasonably expected for a peak just 18 hours ago.
Hurricane Harvey is displaying explosive development the past 60-90 minutes. About to become a major hurricane.
Not sure how long a go this was …..3:05 Eastern?
Anyway 1 1/2 hrs is pretty quick https://twitter.com/Ryan_Wichman/status/900841415…
We're about 250 miles from Corpus Christi but we should get 4-8 inches of rain. Winds are forecast to about 30mph here so we'll anchor metal fence posts in each corner of the small, quonset-style huts the ducks live in to prevent the houses from blowing away. Covered up as much stuff that shouldn't have a shitload of rain and just got back from the store with 2 12-packs of PBR.
I just hope there isn't any lightning. I don't work during lightning.
Eh, it's a tropical cyclone, probably very little lightning. Good luck with the rain though. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those totals are quite a bit higher.
Harvey could be an unusually prolific tornado producer along the central and upper Texas coast, given its expected very slow motion near the coastline. This location would maximize the tornado-supportive wind structure within Harvey’s rainbands, especially northeast of the center. Slow-moving Hurricane Beulah, which made landfall in far South Texas as a Category 3 storm in 1967, produced a total of 115 tornadoes—just behind the U.S. record of 118 tornadoes from Hurricane Ivan (2004).
And it's rapidly strengthening too. Probably going to have a 12-foot surge somewhere along the coast.
Good to see them taking it seriously.
The person blaming the late warning on the mayor in the comments is an idiot. This thing's already stronger than anyone could have reasonably expected for a peak just 18 hours ago.
The gulf warm eddy. Worst-case scenario. Most of the strongest hurricanes ever recorded in the Gulf hit a similar situation to this.
Hurricane Harvey is displaying explosive development the past 60-90 minutes. About to become a major hurricane.
Not sure how long a go this was …..3:05 Eastern?
Anyway 1 1/2 hrs is pretty quick https://twitter.com/Ryan_Wichman/status/900841415…
Well, I'm not sure about 3:05, but an image from 6:15 got a raw Dvorak T-number of 5.4 which would equate to about 115 mph. Unreal.
We're about 250 miles from Corpus Christi but we should get 4-8 inches of rain. Winds are forecast to about 30mph here so we'll anchor metal fence posts in each corner of the small, quonset-style huts the ducks live in to prevent the houses from blowing away. Covered up as much stuff that shouldn't have a shitload of rain and just got back from the store with 2 12-packs of PBR.
I just hope there isn't any lightning. I don't work during lightning.
Eh, it's a tropical cyclone, probably very little lightning. Good luck with the rain though. I wouldn't be surprised if some of those totals are quite a bit higher.
So there' still time to get more beer.
Stay dry, Chas.
Texas beach cams. Some won't play with adblock. Gonna be dark soon though http://www.beachcamsusa.com/states/tx
Time lapse of blow-up
https://twitter.com/NWSEastern/status/90078138756…
That new satellite is incredible.
Recon data suggests a pressure of 971 mb or so. Down 7 from just 3 hours ago.
Update: Official pressure reported as 974. A few higher than expected but it's still strengthening. Winds still 85 mph.
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Wunderground:
Harvey could be an unusually prolific tornado producer along the central and upper Texas coast, given its expected very slow motion near the coastline. This location would maximize the tornado-supportive wind structure within Harvey’s rainbands, especially northeast of the center. Slow-moving Hurricane Beulah, which made landfall in far South Texas as a Category 3 storm in 1967, produced a total of 115 tornadoes—just behind the U.S. record of 118 tornadoes from Hurricane Ivan (2004).
Texas's Loss Is Refining Stocks Gain as Hurricane Boosts Margins
http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-OV…
Never allow a crisis to go to waste.
https://twitter.com/reportbywilson/status/9008997…
Does this count as actively trying to kill people yet?
Imma go with ,"Yes."
The eye of Harvey is now visible on the Brownsville Radar. NHC will begin issuing hourly position updates at 11:00pm CDT.
maximum sustained winds have
increased to near 100 mph (160 km/h). http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCUAT4+sh…
You're gonna need t' jack up that truck a bit more, Billy Bob.
If they do, you may never see them again.
Yeah.