jm1220

Feels like a bath. Literally.

This happened in the middle of the night, the storms stalled out because there’s no trough nearby to expedite getting Barry’s remnants out, and the terrain/rock hard ground problem exacerbated it. It had zero to do with “weather modification”. I wasn’t paying enough attention to see if the NWS dropped the ball and the funding cuts are obviously a huge outrage and problem, but this is KNOWN to be a major problem in Central TX especially. There was 16” of rain in one morning in Austin from the remnants of Hurricane Patricia in Oct 2015 which is bar none the heaviest rain I’ve ever seen. Likely even puts Ida to shame. The Austin to San Antonio corridor is known to get tons of rain in a short period of time, but is otherwise pretty dry. And when it falls over the limestone Hill Country, it rampages down the hills into small creeks and as we see here, even the larger rivers can be overwhelmed fast.

Yep, could be a scenario where it’s bone dry on the south shore but 5 miles inland a deluge.

They do, the Colorado River which goes through Austin has numerous dams that were put in as a result of floods over the years. Problem is this was so localized and stalled out so it couldn’t be diverted in time.

What a catastrophic situation in central TX. The area from Austin to San Antonio and north in the Hill Country is probably the worst in the nation for flash floods. There's tons of moisture from the Gulf and remnants of Barry, long term drought so the soil is hard as a rock and the water has to runoff, and the hilly terrain which rushes the water into relatively small creeks and then larger rivers. Some places reported over 20" in this event and it's still raining. I can remember how bad it got in May 2015 when I was there and Wimberley was devastated by one of these fast moving floods coming down from the hills, and water rushed through downtown Austin on Memorial Day. But this is even worse.

Couple rumbles of thunder and light to moderate rain. Meh.

In Long Beach-looks like we get split screwed. Typical.

Surprised no heat advisory. JFK heat index hit 105 today.

90. Officially another heatwave IMBY. And wow it feels like it.

High of 92 today.

High of 92. Heat’s definitely back.

Looks like a general steam bath pattern. 92/75 is no fun here either.

Pretty cool interaction between the outflow boundaries from earlier storms N of the city with the seabreeze firing more storms over LI. Also can see the backdoor coming into the twin forks which will probably fire more showers/storms.

Hovering at 100-101 the past hour.

Highly highly doubt it.

Just hit 100.

Looking at the Boston radar you can see tomorrow’s relief charging west.

Up to 99. Another late rally.

Yesterday I was at 99-100 then when the seabreeze came north I spiked to 103.

97-98 in my neighborhood. Maybe another late rally.

So far-high of 96 at FRG, 97 for ISP.

A few stations over 100 in southern Baldwin/Oceanside. Guess that’s the compressional heating area today.

Looks like an attempt at a seabreeze so far right near the Great South Bay and immediate barrier islands but not really cooling it off at all. 92/76 is hideous.

Bunch of temps around 100 near the Southern State.

It’s so annoying how the media constantly says “NYC didn’t/NYC couldn’t” etc when Central Park is often so unrepresentative and we’ve noted many times the issue with the asos citing etc.