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Gene Norman: July 2008 Archives
This little swirl caught my eye Monday and when I walked into the office today, David P... Dolly made history as only the second July hurricane to strike south of Matagorda Bay. The last one was a storm from 1909 on nearly the same date. We benefitted from Dolly's rain in a big way today. Look at how the showers streamed in from the Gulf of Mexico in nearly equally-spaced bands:
In the best of all worlds, Dolly would cause ...
Tropical Depression #3 formed tonight off the South Carolina coast and will slowly drift up t...
The as yet undefined system in the Caribbean continues to track we... Yes, I know we've seen some rain this week. At least some of us have. But it has only made a small dent in the growing deficit across Southeast Texas. According to the National Weather Service, several counties have slipped into the "exceptional" drought classification. This means that the drought is having a major impact on agriculture and lakes, rivers and streams are dangerously low. Here's a map of the counties: >> Continue reading: Staying Dry
This is a "fire-rainbow", the rarest of rainbows, captured in Galv... It's only early July and already we have a hurricane. Bertha formed just before the July 4th holiday weekend and by the time everyone came back to work, it was a Category 3 hurricane. It won't likely affect any land areas other than bringing higher waves to the East Coast of the U.S. and Bermuda. However, it is rather early in the season for a hurricane. So I did some digging and found some interesting facts about July hurricanes and the r... As in the second storm of this young hurricane season. Bertha formed today off the west coast of Africa. These "Cape Verde" storms, so called because of their proximity to the isolated islands usually don't begin to appear until early August. So you may first begin to wonder if this is a sign of an earlier start to a bust hurricane season. It's a little too early to tell. Water temperatures in the eastern Atlantic are a bit warmer than la...
Imagine looking out the window and seeing this every day? Well that's exac... |
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