ATL: Tropical Depression Edouard

[njweather]

Cool, breezy, albeit rainy - this turned out to be a nice day for South Houston

[jabman98]

I can't believe they're still doing nonstop live coverage on the local stations. We have major thunderstorms that cause much more damage and they barely warrant a mention. I wonder when they'll return to regular programming.

[JenBayles]

Ch. 11 had a reporter at the San Luis hotel in Galveston. The camera panned to an umbrella blown on the patio. OOOOOHHHH!!!!! Now, it occurs to me that the San Luis is a darned nice hotel, and they would have surely taken in all their umbrellas and anything else that might get blown around yesterday evening. I wouldn't put it past a reporter to pull out an umbrella, open it, and throw it on the wet patio just to show some "damage."

Between, me, my husband and a friend over for the day, we're having a ball tearing apart the media coverage. Moronic reporting is the game for today!

[Johnny]

I can't believe they're still doing nonstop live coverage on the local stations. We have major thunderstorms that cause much more damage and they barely warrant a mention. I wonder when they'll return to regular programming.

I do agree with you (Sunday's Storms were a lot worse than this in my neck of the woods) but this is a Tropical Storm which will always be major news when we are directly effected by one. That's just the way it is.

[Tireman4]

Here in Humble, still breezy, rainy (heavy at times) and supposedly the center is near us.

[srainhoutx]

A bit over 3 inches and counting on the NW side. Our yard and plants are saying a big thank you to Edouard.

[green eyed girl]

who can tell the group why there is no hail associated with a tropical system?[/quote]


Is it because the hail melts before it hits the ground?

[KWT]

When you get hail you normally know a system is undergoing RI, I seem to recall Felix had hail and lightning in its eyewall?

[jabman98]

who can tell the group why there is no hail associated with a tropical system?

One of our local stations here in Houston just showed video sent in by a viewer in one of the counties east of Houston. It was hailing in the video. That's from Edouard. Thought of your post because apparently, at least in this instance, there is some hail associated with it.

[lebron23]

rain amounts .36 here

[wxman57]

who can tell the group why there is no hail associated with a tropical system?

Is it because the hail melts before it hits the ground?[/quote]

You're actually right. Tropical Cyclones are warm-core storms. With warmer-than-normal air in the center and in the general environment of the storm, the freezing level is higher than normal. Vertical motions in hurricanes are typically not as great as with severe storms that would produce large hail. So any hail would tend to be smaller and would fall through a deeper layer of above-freezing air in a tropical cyclone.

[jlauderdal]

who can tell the group why there is no hail associated with a tropical system?

One of our local stations here in Houston just showed video sent in by a viewer in one of the counties east of Houston. It was hailing in the video. That's from Edouard. Thought of your post because apparently, at least in this instance, there is some hail associated with it.

good work, the system is changing and now there is hail. warm core systems don't produce hail or lightning

[Extremeweatherguy]

I didn't see hail, but I did see a lot of lightning in this storm. Down near High Island I witnessed multiple cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud striikes as the storm was pushing ashore.

[jabman98]

We've had no lightning here (near downtown Houston), and have only heard distant thunder once or twice and that was hours ago. Have had a lot of rain though. Guessing we're at around 3 inches at this point. It's been raining non-stop since around 9:30 a.m.

[jlauderdal]

I didn't see hail, but I did see a lot of lightning in this storm. Down near High Island I witnessed multiple cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud striikes as the storm was pushing ashore.

you live in orl

[njweather]

I didn't see hail, but I did see a lot of lightning in this storm. Down near High Island I witnessed multiple cloud-to-ground and cloud-to-cloud striikes as the storm was pushing ashore.

you live in orl

Caught!

Actually, Extremeweatherguy flew to Galveston to the track the system.

[Wx_Warrior]

Morning/afternoon....

Wish I had some good photos to show but I don't. Overhyped a tad here in Beaumont. There are many without electricity but most businesses are open.

No flooding. Some old trees down but nothing major.

[tallywx]

re: the IAH waterspout, I seem to remember there being a couple of large lakes very near alongside one of the final approaches to IAH. I recall coming in over a lake, banking 90 degrees, and bam...we were touching down pretty soon. Perhaps there was a waterspout in that lake?

[jordanmills]

re: the IAH waterspout, I seem to remember there being a couple of large lakes very near alongside one of the final approaches to IAH. I recall coming in over a lake, banking 90 degrees, and bam...we were touching down pretty soon. Perhaps there was a waterspout in that lake?

It's pretty close to Lake Houston, might have been under the path of the center. You might be able to see waterspouts on the lake from the tower.

[Yankeegirl]

Same here... nothing to write home about... the storms that blew threw here yesterday were way worse than this!! but whatever, im glad it wasnt anything too major... we need the rain... and a nice rainy day with cooler temps is just perfect too...