Interesting Houston, TX discussion

[hurricanetrack]

I found this on the NWS Houston disco:

HIGH TEMPERATURE AT IAH WAS 100 TODAY! WHICH WAS BELOW THE RECORD OF
103 SET DURING THE 1980 HEATWAVE. BUT WITH THICKNESS/HEIGHTS RISING
COULD SEE A REPEAT OF THIS TEMPERATURE AND WITH THE RECORDS RUNNING
A FEW DEGREES COOLER WILL PROBABLY SET A NEW RECORD HIGH MAXIMUM
TEMPERATURES AND RECORD HIGH MINIMUM TEMPERATURES AS WELL. AM
EXPECTING IAH TEMPERATURE TO ONLY FALL TO AROUND 83 BY MIDNIGHT SO
IT LOOKS AS THOUGH THIS WILL TIE THE 1983 RECORD HIGH MINIMUM
TEMPERATURE.

Note that the records were 1980 (Allen made landfall in TX that year) and 1983 (Alicia made landfall that year). Is this a correlation or pure coincidence? It is certainly noteworthy at the very least.

[Guest]

That is a, as my 11th grade geometry instructor would say, coincidinki!

[Scorpion]

Perhaps "Cindy" will make this pattern?

[MGC]

The summer of 1980 was a brutal heat wave. Many records still stand. One long hot summer......MGC

[corpusbreeze]

The summer of 1980 was a brutal heat wave. Many records still stand. One long hot summer......MGC

As a matter of fact that heat wave saved South Texas from Allen. The ground in South Texas was so dry that dry air was pulled into Allen before landfall thus causing Allen to weaken from a cat3 storm into a strong cat1 before landfall. This dry spell we now have in Texas could help save us from a potential strong hurricane this year , if one was to approach the Texas coast.

[SouthernWx]

The ground in South Texas was so dry that dry air was pulled into Allen before landfall thus causing Allen to weaken from a cat3 storm into a strong cat1 before landfall.

Friend, Allen was a major hurricane at landfall north of Brownsville...945 mb and 115-120 mph sustained winds. A peak gust of 138 mph was clocked at the Port Mansfield USCG station, and new inlets were carved by the 8-12' storm surge at numerous locations along South Padre Island.

While true, hurricane Allen did weaken considerably during the final 12-24 hours before landfall (from a W GOM record intensity of 909 mb/ 180 mph to 945 mb/ 115-120 mph), the hurricane was still strong enough to have caused major destruction if landfall had occurred at either Brownsville/ Port Isabel or Corpus Christi.

Just as with 1999 cat-3 Bret, residents of coastal Texas were indeed fortunate Allen missed populated coastal counties.

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... /track.dat
(Unisys isn't always correct re: landfall intensity, but this time they are; I possess a copy of the official NHC Allen report).

PW

[corpusbreeze]

The ground in South Texas was so dry that dry air was pulled into Allen before landfall thus causing Allen to weaken from a cat3 storm into a strong cat1 before landfall.

Friend, Allen was a major hurricane at landfall north of Brownsville...945 mb and 115-120 mph sustained winds. A peak gust of 138 mph was clocked at the Port Mansfield USCG station, and new inlets were carved by the 8-12' storm surge at numerous locations along South Padre Island.

While true, hurricane Allen did weaken considerably during the final 12-24 hours before landfall (from a W GOM record intensity of 909 mb/ 180 mph to 945 mb/ 115-120 mph), the hurricane was still strong enough to have caused major destruction if landfall had occurred at either Brownsville/ Port Isabel or Corpus Christi.

Just as with 1999 cat-3 Bret, residents of coastal Texas were indeed fortunate Allen missed populated coastal counties.

http://weather.unisys.com/hurricane/atl ... /track.dat
(Unisys isn't always correct re: landfall intensity, but this time they are; I possess a copy of the official NHC Allen report).

PW

Yes I remember well, I went through both here in Corpus. Allen could have been so much worst, but thank God it weakened.

[Hurricaneman]

People were quite lucky in 1980 in Corpus Christi with Allen