Brief Break, Then More Heavy Rain for South

Radar, Southern Texas, Image: NOAA (Image is OLD!!!)

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Brownsville, Harlingen, and Corpus Christi are feeling the effects of the next Gulf low developing along the Southern Texas coast. This storm will make a path toward Houston and then New Orleans over the next several days, dumping rain on saturated soils.

Thursday's Computer Model Forecast, Image: Unisys Weather

Thursday Night Model Forecast, Image: Unisys Weather

The images above represent computer model forecast for Thursday and Thursday night. As you can see, the Texas coastline gets drenched as a low pressure system over the Gulf of Mexico develops. That low then tracks west, bringing heavy rain to the central Gulf, and possibly heavy rain to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama once again.

A storm tracking across the Cascades and then the Rocky Mountains is forecast to dump heavy snow.

-Dawn Brown

Wildfires Rage Again in California, Quiet in the Tropics…

Another wildfire rages about thirty miles from my hometown in Southern California. The fire started between Fillmore and Moorpark. Firefighters are calling it the Guiberson fire, after a street close to where it started. National Weather Service forecasters in Southern California have been warning people since late Sunday that hot, dry and windy conditions could spark a fire. Click here for the latest Los Angeles Weather reports regarding the high wind warnings that are still in effect. You know, I was worried once the television stations started warning people that the fire danger was sky high, some crazy would go out and start a fire. Today, it’s being reported that arson is suspected. We’ll see if that’s the official cause.

It is STILL raining in the midsection of the country. Click on the read more link for more on this and the tropics!

The Pacific is Up to “N”, More Snow in the Rockies?, Dr. Gray’s New Forecast

Tropical Storm Nora has formed in the Pacific Ocean. It is well away from any landmass, and will not affect the US, including Hawaii. Cold air, especially for this time of the year, is trapped in the Rocky Mountains. More snow is possible there.  Denver forecasters have the latest. Dr. Gray, the renowned hurricane forecaster, whose specialty has been forecasting long range hurricane outlooks, (producing a forecast in December for the following summer) is now forecasting just the next two weeks. Click Read More…