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[AllenK RGV]

I was so convinced at this point it would be named. Who knows I am pretty sure there is another mission into the storm tonight, but willing to eat my crow. Current imagery def looks less robust. The thumbnailed one was about noonish CST.

 

[electrycmonk]

Well this is the 2 pics I wanted to show you this AM @AllenK RGV ...

 

[electrycmonk]

I was so convinced at this point it would be named. Who knows I am pretty sure there is another mission into the storm tonight, but willing to eat my crow. Current imagery def looks less robust. The thumbnailed one was about noonish CST. View attachment 2259313

On spegetti models site, near the bottom of the page, the animated Klystron 9 loops show some reinforcement to the no name just yet. Seems there is just enough instability in the upper air?

Or am I miss interpreting the data?

 

[AllenK RGV]

On spegetti models site, near the bottom of the page, the animated Klystron 9 loops show some reinforcement to the no name just yet. Seems there is just enough instability in the upper air?

Or am I miss interpreting the data?

I never use(Klystron besides I am armchair quarterbacking) those when there are active recon flights inside the storms and dropping sensors in. https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/recon/recon_NOAA3-0308A-CYCLONE.png the results of this mission will tell us. But as of this point it looks like 30kt winds still not the 34+ to upgrade.

Regardless it is a Texas size looking storm. Hoping it doesn't intensify much.

 

[electrycmonk]

/Back in my UNT days..... When the 'Net was much younger '96-'04 I was connected to several professors in many areas of science besides the physics dept I worked in. Remote sensing was one of the coolest areas for me to see the raw data straight from the satellites....

By all means armchair away my friend. I was just scrolling down that page and saw the looping sat image.

I used to have a favorite loop that was publicly visible from the Unisys weather website for well over 17 years.... I lost track of it over the last 2 years when their website went thru some upheaval and weather underground merged with the other weather site at that same time.

That graphic was a 24hr loop of visible sat. Of the entire earth. Back when a 17" CRT was great and 800x800 was the standard pixel scale that monitor would do 1200+ x 1200+ and that map was so beautiful.

Then when you could do ~1600x ~1200 as normal the loop still was impressive.

With our web service so wonky over the last 3+ weeks I'm not into hunting for it as the DSL is so frustrating for us currently.....

 

[AllenK RGV]

This kinda cracks me up, 90% of the folks on our street do their civic responsibility and mow property they do not own, for which we have a line item annual (Drainage District tax plus Cameron County taxes). Then I see dorks get on TV telling me to clean up "Our" ditches because it is Hurricane season.

Were it my property and ditch I would mow it, but it isn't, and since we are paying for services not rendered could care less. Here is our continued taxpayer boycott:



p.s- besides we are all 6-9ft higher in elevation than the street.

 

[electrycmonk]

Oddly our 'gutter' is our property and the county has easement 'rights' for it as well as the dry Creek bed out back. The gutter is regularly mowed. The back Creek bed is usually mowed 2x a year. 1st will be somewhere in the next few weeks.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Oddly our 'gutter' is our property and the county has easement 'rights' for it as well as the dry Creek bed out back. The gutter is regularly mowed. The back Creek bed is usually mowed 2x a year. 1st will be somewhere in the next few weeks.

Our back ditch is all of our property and just got its 20 year clearing in late winter. The front is all theirs. I missed my chance to mow and maintain it this year to recover for plantings/gardening. It is all under easement but represents 1/3rd of an acre all by itself. I only am prohibited from permanent structures back there and it gets Full sun each day and every day ain't no easement on those taxes though.

They send me the full accounting each spring, but fortunately I don't need paying them just upset at how much my neighbors burden is. 2.25% per year for lack of service is a wealth tax more should be entitled too.

 

[AllenK RGV]

Latest guidance is Hanna will be upgraded to a hurricane at landfall. I do not like the models that keep moving it southward, but would be surprised if my coops fail.

I have to secure things though like my bubba rain gauge bucket tonight. Batteries were all checked and charged and it is only a weak Cat 1 so not really stressed. It will give me a chance to do an evaluation of our prep planning as this is our first one on this property to get a weak storm nothing to board up the windows over like when Harvey looked like it would be an issue but just grazed us.

Ugh local forecast is 8-15 inches of rain, winds not so much for my location. At least the time line was pushed back to afternoon tomorrow so I can make it out to stock up on more boxed wine.

 

[electrycmonk]

Well, get up early.... So you can get out and back sooner.... Just in case it shows up early ... Or one of the typical spiral arms happens to take some steroids and really rolls over the land faster then projected.

Stay safe and as sane as possible. Looking forward to hearing that your efforts pan out satisfactorily at a minimum too.