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| -Signs, Portents, and the Weather- |
| Hurricane Dolly -now a Cat2- to make landfall today. |
| 2008-07-23 |
| From the NHC --------- Dolly strengthening as it approaches the southern Texas coast... a Hurricane Warning remains in effect for the coast of Texas from Brownsville to Corpus Christi....At 800 am CDT...1300z...the center of Hurricane Dolly was located near latitude 25.9 north...longitude 96.9 west or about 40 miles ...east of Brownsville Texas....Dolly is expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 6 to 10 inches...with isolated amounts of 15 inches...over portions of south Texas and northeastern Mexico over the next few days. --------- 1. the link is to the long range Brownsville radar 2. the Rio Grande valley will get a huge dump of rain... probably a few areas (most in Mexico where drainage is unimproved) will get flooded to 2nd story window level |
| Posted by:mhw |
| #8 at 1000 CDT, downgraded to Tropical Storm (as forecast per earlier comment) but rain still heavy |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-07-23 22:56 |
| #7 People smuggling numbers will likely fall until this is over. See? No cloud without a silver lining! ;-) Stay safe, Texas Rantburgers. Keep an eye out for our darling moderator Sherry. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-07-23 22:06 |
| #6 at 700 pm CDT it was well inland, almost certainly will be downgraded to a tropical storm by 1000pm CDT also velocity has picked up slightly still, this will dump over 10 million acre-feet of rain into the lower Rio Grande river basin and while some of this area is in a drought, that much water will do some bad things to houses, roads, etc. |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-07-23 21:06 |
| #5 This is un-presidented, a Cat. 2 hurricane roaring ashore in July on the Tex-Mex border. Where's that damn dry ice salesman? $2.49 a lb. looking better. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-07-23 20:06 |
| #4 landfall was about 120pm CDT about 20 miles North of Brownsville |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-07-23 14:44 |
| #3 "100 mph winds blew semi tractors off the road while hail knocked out the windows of vehicles caught in the storm." Last night, south of Wichita as global warming comes to Kansas. |
| Posted by: bman 2008-07-23 11:38 |
| #2 I couldn't resist... Well, Hello Dolly... |
| Posted by: 3dc 2008-07-23 10:58 |
| #1 Best of luck to everyone in the storm's path. |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-07-23 10:40 |