ATL: Tropical Depression Edouard

[MGC]

I can't ever recall a TS evaporating as quickly as Edouard did today. I guess is should have never messed with Texas......MGC

[funster]

I can't ever recall a TS evaporating as quickly as Edouard did today. I guess is should have never messed with Texas......MGC

LOL - it's like Edouard just went *poof* and vanished.

[GeneratorPower]

The drought shield held. No rain permitted.

[southerngale]

I'm at home and I have power!

Heavy rain and a bunch of wind... lots of branches down, but no damage at all. I know of one man in Beaumont who wasn't as lucky when a 40 foot oak came tumbling down on his house. An 18-wheeler was turned over. There was minor flooding here and there, a lot of power outages, some trees down, but all in all, not very bad. It wasn't nearly as bad as the damage here caused by Humberto last year, and I doubt (hope, pray) nothing ever comes anywhere close to what Rita did to us in 2005. That was a nightmare.

Local met, Greg Bostwick (greg_kfdm_tv on here) said tonight that it's like we've become a hurricane/tropical storm magnet. It's kinda unreal. It hasn't even been 3 years since Rita hit, and we've already had another hurricane and a tropical storm.

[LaBreeze]

Tell me about it southerngale. Rita wiped out my house - completely gone. It will be a year that we are in our new house on August 15th. Rita was indeed a nightmare. Edouard broke some branches off of some of my oak trees and blew down my neighbor's fence. Not that bad, especially after having been in Rita (and in Audrey when I was a child).

[southerngale]

LaBreeze... so sorry for your loss in Rita, but congratulations on one year in your new home. And thank God Edouard was just a TS.

[HURAKAN]

[Extremeweatherguy]

I was met with some bad news this morning. The video camera I shot Edouard with has stopped working, and my tape is stuck inside. I have tried taking it to Circuit City and Best Buy for servicing, but neither could help me. I now have to send the camera to a national repair center in Illinois where the safety of my tape cannot be guaranteed. Hopefully all will go well and I will be able to share the footage with everyone sometime in the next 2-3 weeks.

[Stratosphere747]

http://www.weather.gov/view/prodsByStat ... ype=public

Preliminary readings out of Lake Charles.

Doubt we will see any higher readings from HGX.

[Over my head]

I was met with some bad news this morning. The video camera I shot Edouard with has stopped working, and my tape is stuck inside. I have tried taking it to Circuit City and Best Buy for servicing, but neither could help me. I now have to send the camera to a national repair center in Illinois where the safety of my tape cannot be guaranteed. Hopefully all will go well and I will be able to share the footage with everyone sometime in the next 2-3 weeks.

Is this you on our local news EWG or anyone we know on our Storm2K board ? These guys are from Houston.

http://www.kfdm.com/video/index.php?bcp ... 1137896012

[RL3AO]

PUBLIC ADVISORY NUMBER 15 FOR REMNANTS OF EDOUARD
NWS HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER CAMP SPRINGS MD AL052008
1000 PM CDT WED AUG 06 2008

...REMNANTS OF EDOUARD CONTINUE TO WEAKEN...

[Chacor]

Scores from the Edouard forecast challenge are now up.

[HurricaneBelle]

PUBLIC ADVISORY NUMBER 15 FOR REMNANTS OF EDOUARD
NWS HYDROMETEOROLOGICAL PREDICTION CENTER CAMP SPRINGS MD AL052008
1000 PM CDT WED AUG 06 2008

...REMNANTS OF EDOUARD CONTINUE TO WEAKEN...

Remnants of the remnants?

[Chacor]

Not quite. Edouard remained classified as a tropical depression (kept its LLCC with convection near the centre) inland and lost the designation when it lost its low-level circulation.

Technically, there is no lower wind barrier to a TD, although the NHC will never initiate advisories under 25 kts. However, when weakening, sometimes the NHC (or if the storm is inland U.S. and a flooding threat, the HPC) will go under that threshold if it meets the criteria for TC.