SE TX / SW LA Discussion - Hot! Hot! Hot!

[jasons2k]

BTW - I know this is late - but Monday Evening the seabreeze line stalled and dumped right on top of me. 1.75" in about an hour.

[Extremeweatherguy]

This July was the 6th wettest in History at IAH with 9.94" of rain recorded (6.76" above the normal total for the month). It was also pretty close to the top ten coolest..but did not quite make it. Our average mean temperature was 82.2-degrees this July.

[JenBayles]

Uuuuhhhhhh.... anyone have a look at the radar recently? All that mess to our NE just turned toward Houston....

[jasons2k]

Yes, and it looks like heavy rainfall is a big threat with training.

We need to also watch the GOM system. The models all keep it east of here but with a ridge possibly building west and easterly flow setting up we need to watch this thing.

[njoynit]

I watched the rain fall.big huge drops. got .70 in raingauge.just misting now& still thundering.bet my plants are happy

[Extremeweatherguy]

Yes, and it looks like heavy rainfall is a big threat with training.

We need to also watch the GOM system. The models all keep it east of here but with a ridge possibly building west and easterly flow setting up we need to watch this thing.

That's a good point. If that ridge builds in strong enough and fast enough (or if the system stalls and waits for the ridge), then we could have some serious issues. Let's just hope it stays east..we certainly don't need that kind of additional rain right now.

[southerngale]

That area north of here is dropping very heavy rain! TEN INCHES of rainfall just this morning in a narrow strip between Zavalla and Sam Rayburn to Dam B and along the Neches River just west of Kirbyville, and looking at radar, it's still raining there as it slowly moves south. Geesh... and with grounds already completely saturated.

I first saw it on a local news site, then went to NWS and got the storm total.

[JenBayles]

Wow! Some of those cells are really looking nasty. Yankee, think the Dome will win this round?

[Extremeweatherguy]

I just had a powerful outflow boundry come through here! Whole trees were in motion, the electric lines were whistling and twigs/leaves were flying everywhere. According to the Beaufort wind scale I saw winds in the 32-46mph range..pretty powerful. (it lasted less than 5 minutes though)

[JenBayles]

I was wondering about that Extreme - I can see it on radar. WHOOSH!

[Extremeweatherguy]

looks like downtown Houston is about to get hit with that outflow hard. I wouldn't be surprised if the wind-tunneling effect generates gusts to 40-50+mph for a few minutes as it arrives.

update: I didn't see any reports of these kinds of winds downtown, so I assume they did not occur. The outflow must have gradually lost strength as it crept further south.

[JenBayles]

Outflow hit the BC Dome about 15 minutes ago - not as bad as you got it EWG. Looks like no rain today for me, just a little wind and a few-degrees of temp drop. Gulf Freeway area looks interesting right now...

[jasons2k]

Looks like some rain up at the house, but the outlfow came through here in Uptown and not a drop. Looks like the storms to the NE are falling apart. Craziness.

[Ptarmigan]

NWS Forecast.

Tonight: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 3am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Increasing clouds, with a low around 77. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Thursday: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Cloudy, with a high near 90. Calm wind becoming northwest around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.

Thursday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 1am. Some of the storms could produce heavy rain. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 76. North wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Friday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a high near 92. Heat index values as high as 101. North wind around 5 mph becoming east.

Friday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a low around 76. Southeast wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Saturday: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a high near 92.

Saturday Night: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 76.

Sunday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a high near 93.

Sunday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 78.

Monday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a high near 93.

Monday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 79.

Tuesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a high near 93.

Tuesday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 79.

Wednesday: A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly cloudy, with a high near 93.

Looks like tonight could be stormy.

[Yankeegirl]

I went and took a nap in hopes that that storm moving in would produce some good thunder so I could get some good sleep, but it never did! Oh well, maybe next time... Looks like a pretty good shot at rain tomorrow?! and then eyes to the Gulf...

[jasons2k]

.40" here today.

Doppler estimates have been on the low side here for the last several storms. Strange b/c the last two years they were dead-on.

[crazycajuncane]

Just a few days ago there was not but a 20% chance of rain for mid week and they keep bumping the rain chances up as the days go on.

Looks like this rainy pattern just can't leave SE TX / SW LA alone... I saw some serious rainfall on the maps for the TX / LA border on Wednesday!

[JenBayles]

Been getting a big tropical P*ss Down under the Bear Creek Dome for the past 10 minutes. It just developed on top of us and is coming straight down in a big gray curtain.

[jasons2k]

From uptown, looking out my window to the north, lots of beautiful,puffy towers going up for the past hour or so. It looks very tropical outside, reminds me of Florida.

[srainhoutx]

not a drop here so far today, but thunder heard at this time