Space City Weather Hurricane Harvey

Tropical storm harvey has shown signs of better organization overnight and now appears likely to become a category 1 hurricane before landfall.

Space city weather hurricane harvey. Houston is getting more flood prone due to both climate change and development patterns. Still there is plenty for space city weather to watch. On august 24 at 8 20 pm a 44 year old moonlighting meteorologist named eric berger was nearly finished writing a post for his houston centric blog space city weather titled harvey late night. Harvey broke that record in at least 18 locations.

Hurricane harvey started as a tropical wave off the african coast on sunday august 13th and tracked westward across the atlantic and on august 17th become a tropical storm which moved into the caribbean sea where harvey become disorganized. A multi part series from the chronicle began last week and it aims to discuss the storm in the context of it not being exclusively a natural disaster. Hurricane harvey was houston s reckoning houston chronicle. Harvey was then downgraded to a tropical wave which entered the gulf of mexico on the 22nd.

Harvey underwent rapid intensification and quickly became a category 3 hurricane on friday at 2 pm 120 mph sustained winds and then a category 4 hurricane 130 mph sustained winds early friday evening. Radar image of tropical storm harvey at 9pm ct saturday. One of my favorite sayings about houston s weather comes from bill read a long time meteorologist in charge of the national weather service s office in league city who later served as director of the national hurricane center from 2008 to 2012. However given the warmth of the gulf of mexico and lowering wind shear levels a stronger storm seems possible.

Between eric s first harvey related post on august 22 and the time the whole mess was finally over a week later space city weather had served 4 3 million pages to 2 1 million uniques and the only. Harvey brought focus to the issue but there haven t been systemic changes afterward to address flood issues. The spatial extent of the heaviest rains from harvey was overwhelming and likely has never been matched in american history. Space city weather intellicast high resolution models which are run frequently continue to show high rainfall totals tonight and into sunday morning with widespread accumulations of 3 to 6 inches and some locations receiving in excess of 10 inches.

Space city weather is brought to you this month by the. Harvey was the second costliest tropical cyclone in us history behind only hurricane katrina.