O/T:- Hurricane Harvey

[tarquinbeech]

Hurricane Season has started here in the Mexican Gulf/Caribbean.....and this is a monster, about 450 miles wide and a Category 2 Hurricane.......the outer bands hit Texas at 8am here and the eye is still 150 miles south-east of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Rainfall predictions are 24 inches in 2 days (over a year's-worth of rain!!) with a storm surge of anywhere between 3 feet and 10 feet.

Rainfall map can be updated every 15 minutes and there is a "play" button to see this thing coming in to the coast.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/co...r-radar/331130

[tarquinbeech]

Hurricane Season has started here in the Mexican Gulf/Caribbean.....and this is a monster, about 450 miles wide and a Category 2 Hurricane.......the outer bands hit Texas at 8am here and the eye is still 150 miles south-east of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Rainfall predictions are 24 inches in 2 days (over a year's-worth of rain!!) with a storm surge of anywhere between 3 feet and 10 feet.

Rainfall map can be updated every 15 minutes and there is a "play" button to see this thing coming in to the coast.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/co...r-radar/331130

17 million people to be affected....major evacuations under way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Mn-EPNtt0

[LaughingMagpie]

Hurricane Season has started here in the Mexican Gulf/Caribbean.....and this is a monster, about 450 miles wide and a Category 2 Hurricane.......the outer bands hit Texas at 8am here and the eye is still 150 miles south-east of Corpus Christi, Texas.

Rainfall predictions are 24 inches in 2 days (over a year's-worth of rain!!) with a storm surge of anywhere between 3 feet and 10 feet.

Rainfall map can be updated every 15 minutes and there is a "play" button to see this thing coming in to the coast.

https://www.accuweather.com/en/us/co...r-radar/331130

Stay safe Tarkers

It wouldn't be the same without you!

[uysapie]

My friends in Houston are going to get seriously wet.

[tarquinbeech]

Stay safe Tarkers

It wouldn't be the same without you!

Cheers Laughing, though some may disagree with you!!

This monster started off the African Coast 10 days ago (for any weather geeks like me out there, the area south of the Azores is the breeding ground for Atlantic hurricanes, between 8 and 20 degrees north of the equator and 26.5 degrees centigrade).....it tracked westwards off the South American continent, swung into the Mexican Yucatan, south of Cuba on Monday night and stalled.....I took some live pics of it as it passed over my head on a beach north of Belize on the Mexican coast........yesterday it picked up heat energy from the Gulf, and literally went beserk feeding on the Gulf moisture.

Here is a tracking video for those interested......watch the tracking circle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqi4dCnrJAc

[Old_pie]

Cheers Laughing, though some may disagree with you!!

This monster started off the African Coast 10 days ago (for any weather geeks like me out there, the area south of the Azores is the breeding ground for Atlantic hurricanes, between 8 and 20 degrees north of the equator and 26.5 degrees centigrade).....it tracked westwards off the South American continent, swung into the Mexican Yucatan, south of Cuba on Monday night and stalled.....I took some live pics of it as it passed over my head on a beach north of Belize on the Mexican coast........yesterday it picked up heat energy from the Gulf, and literally went beserk feeding on the Gulf moisture.

Here is a tracking video for those interested......watch the tracking circle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oqi4dCnrJAc

So hasn't Trump threatened it with appropriate, or even inappropriate, action.

For anyone wanting to look at world weather at any altitude with a number of parameters then

https://earth.nullschool.net

makes good viewing.

[tarquinbeech]

So hasn't Trump threatened it with appropriate, or even inappropriate, action.

For anyone wanting to look at world weather at any altitude with a number of parameters then

https://earth.nullschool.net

makes good viewing.

.....and anyone interested in World Weather temps, Ocean temps, Sea Ice.....pretty much anything anywhere climate-related....a superb tool that I use daily

http://cci-reanalyzer.org/

[tarquinbeech]

Apologies for the ****ty sound......myself and Miriam sat drinking beers/White Russians, whilst Hurricane Harvey hits the Mexican coast around us 5 days ago........................... on it's way to smash Texas

https://youtu.be/xwU4yyKF1kA

[tarquinbeech]

Upgraded to Category 3....125 mph winds.....4 feet of rain plus 8 feet of tidal surge.....this is a MONSTER.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acap3IrCYYk

[SwalePie]

Upgraded to Category 3....125 mph winds.....4 feet of rain plus 8 feet of tidal surge.....this is a MONSTER.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Acap3IrCYYk

And just for good measure, look who's running the show!

"Texas is facing a "very major disaster" as Hurricane Harvey approaches its coastline, the state's governor says.
Harvey, currently a category three storm in the Gulf of Mexico, will make landfall on Texas' central coast late on Friday or early on Saturday. Greg Abbott has asked for more federal aid to cope with the storm, which may be the worst to hit the US in 12 years."