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Will it ever end?
The tropical systems are lined up from the United States nearly to Africa. There are four. Count them. Four storms as of midday Tuesday.
Tropical Depression Gustav was playing out over Louisiana and Arkansas. But tropical storms Hanna, Ike and Josephine were still keeping...
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Gustav is still in the Caribbean Sea, but it has everyone wondering where it will make landfall.
About the only thing that seems a good bet now is that it will end up in the Gulf of Mexico. The latest forecast from the U.S. Hydrometeorological Prediction Center calls...
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Well it happened.
The area of clouds in the Caribbean that I blogged about this morning spun up into Tropical Storm Gustav. It now has 60 mph winds as it moves to the northwest.
Ordinarily that direction of travel might be a reason for Texans to breathe a...
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While everyone has been watching Tropical Storm Fay make a record-setting four landfalls, another system appears to be taking on life in the Caribbean.
The National Hurricane Center issued a special tropical disturbance statement this morning noting the...
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The tropics have certainly quieted down since last week.
There’s a cluster of thunderstorms off the Louisiana Coast Tuesday afternoon. I can’t see a low pressure system associated with it and the National Hurricane Center makes no mention of it in its...
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The 10 a.m. Tuesday update from the National Hurricane Center continues to lessen the threat from Tropical Storm Dolly for the Victoria area.
A hurricane warning from Corpus Christi to Port O’Connor has been replaced with a tropical storm warning.
Dolly has 70 mph winds and was...
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It seems like it took forever, but the tropical system I’ve been blogging about for a week has finally exploded and could be a threat for the Victoria area.
It became Tropical Storm Dolly over the weekend as it headed for the Yucatan and should be a hurricane by...
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The tropical low pressure I blogged about earlier this week waned for a while, but it appears to be regaining its strength.
It’s just a few hundred miles from the Windward Islands and headed for the Caribbean.
And the National Hurricane Center thinks...
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Even as Tropical Storm Bertha spins its way through the Atlantic Ocean, another system appears poised to keep weather watchers busy.
A tropical low pressure was located 1,200 miles east of the Lesser Antilles on Monday. The National Hurricane Center is saying conditions...
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Corpus Christi and Galveston are among the five Gulf Coast cities that will be visited by a hurricane hunter aircraft the week of April 14.
The public will be allowed to tour the aircraft as part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's effort to raise...
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I had to check my calendar today to make sure it was really mid-October. There was a hint of fall in the air Friday night while I was sitting in the stands watching my son play football. Boy was that ever short-lived.
The relative humidity returned with vengeance today...
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