atlantic hurricane season Hurricane Harvey

[knocker]

Edited August 25, 2017 by knocker

[knocker]

[Iceberg]

1 hour ago, Iceberg said:

harvey is concentric again and is trying for an erc the smaller eye is quite ragged now and te much larger one in good shape. 

Harvey might just reform the inner wall. Whatever happens it will be very noticeable from land Doppler. 

Looks like a repeat from early morning. Inner wall reforms absorbs the outer squeezes out the dry air and now contracting and  depending again imho 

[fujita5]

Harvey is certainly an efficient machine isn't he, it's fascinating watching the loops - thanks to all who have posted these.

I hope the inhabitants of SE Texas are taking this seriously, because this is about as bad as it gets.  A storm over steaming hot waters with minimal shear, very light steering winds and the likelihood of stalling on the coast...I'm hoping against hope there won't be significant loss of life from this storm, but 20+ inches of rain falling over a wide area is an exceptionally extreme event and not likely to be repeated any time soon (I hope). 

[Paul]

Nick has updated his 'Harvey' blog:

Harvey Threatens Texas As A Category 3 Hurricane

[Gray-Wolf]

26 minutes ago, fujita5 said:

Harvey is certainly an efficient machine isn't he, it's fascinating watching the loops - thanks to all who have posted these.

I hope the inhabitants of SE Texas are taking this seriously, because this is about as bad as it gets.  A storm over steaming hot waters with minimal shear, very light steering winds and the likelihood of stalling on the coast...I'm hoping against hope there won't be significant loss of life from this storm, but 20+ inches of rain falling over a wide area is an exceptionally extreme event and not likely to be repeated any time soon (I hope). 

And if you factor in the storm surge blocking the exit of all that rainfall, esp. if he pops back out into the gulf and then heads east as then he will be blocking the worst of his flooding as he travels.

If he keeps his toes in the gulf then he could remain a low number storm for the duration ( 5 days?) making rescue difficult.

I fear another Katrina is in the offing........

[The PIT]

4 hours ago, SenlacJack said:

Galveston seawall webcam here :

http://www.galveston.com/seawallvideocam/

Looking pretty rough there already.

Either over loaded or blown away not available at the moment

[Polar Maritime]

This one seems to work.

 

[The PIT]

Eye a little breezy it looks.

[Summer Sun]

 

[SenlacJack]

1 hour ago, The PIT said:

Either over loaded or blown away not available at the moment

I'm watching it live now, the camera view switches from time to time but it's still up and running.

Edit to update: It looks quite ferocious there right now.

Edited August 25, 2017 by SenlacJack

[Summer Sun]

Now confirmed as Cat 3

[alexisj9]

1 hour ago, Summer Sun said:

 

Already.

[Daniel*]

A biblical flood is in the offing. While there will be a human cost I feel for the animals plenty of alligators and snakes and whatnot will be displaced and killed that may pose an additional danger. 

[The PIT]

37 minutes ago, SenlacJack said:

I'm watching it live now, the camera view switches from time to time but it's still up and running.

Edit to update: It looks quite ferocious there right now.

Not working here still saying error.

[SenlacJack]

2 minutes ago, The PIT said:

Not working here still saying error.

http://www.galveston.com/seawallvideocam/

[Daniel*]

3 minutes ago, alexisj9 said:

Already.

Not sure why SS posted that. Not related to Hurricane Harvey. 

And yes finally an upgrade to major hurricane status.  

FInally 

[toggerob]

oops 

[Iceberg]

Harvey continues to strengthen still. 

Recon pass just now found 941-942mb flight winds of 120kt and surface winds just shy of 100kts. 

Harvey is closing in on cat 4 but more importantly has a large area of damaging winds which will help to bring down trees and block water ways even well inland. 

[Polar Bear]

Hmm only just caught up and been made aware of Hurricane Harvey.. my first thought is how apt a name .. I ride a horse called Harvey. He is a dominant territorial big brute. Loves the rain too. 

But he likes and is kind to people, so let's hope Hurricane Harvey, decides landfall isn't for him, and keeps people out of harms way. 

Edited August 25, 2017 by Polar Bear

[Iceberg]

Galveston could be in trouble already 3-5 inches of rain. 

Cat 3 winds in the sw quad which will be affecting corpus. 

Edited August 25, 2017 by Iceberg

[The PIT]

Watching the seawall cam. Some people walked past a little while a go without much difficulty which makes me think it's a lot less than sixty mph at the moment.

[Radiating Dendrite]

NOAA also have a tornado warning out for the Galveston area as well.

[Love Snow]

This is a great feed 

https://www.pscp.tv/w/bG8m4DFXTEVSZVBZTFJWamJ8MVlxR29tV3Baenl4doRUFh2I6hreLrS_0bb5weFy5w0UsYx84LgkLsNh4qn2

[Iceberg]

Another pass underway unconfirmed 939mb so still developing.