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Meteorological Perfection: Super Typhoon Tip Revisited

Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:20:00 GMT

This October 12 at 120353Z (10:53 pm CDT on October 11th) marks a very special anniversary in Meteorology. 30 years ago from the previously mentioned date, the lowest sea level barometric pressure ever observed was recorded in the eye of Super Typhoon Tip. The measurement, recorded by an aircraft reconnaissance mission into Tip, bottomed out at a whopping 870 mb (25.69 in Hg), equivalent to being nearly a mile high in the atmosphere under normal circumstances! This ...
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The Texas Drought of 2008-2009

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:12:00 GMT

Climatologically speaking, Texas has been a land of either feast or famine. The state has a reputation of going long periods time with below-average rainfall, and then suddenly making up the difference in a very short period of time. However, the current "famine" is of a greater magnitude than most, and perhaps any drought previously recorded. The purpose of this blog is to analyze the current Texas Drought, such as how it developed and how severe it actually is, as...
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Off-Topic Blog

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:23:00 GMT

Since I joined Weather Underground at the beginning of the 2006 Hurricane season, every single blog I have created has had some sort of meteorology theme to it. However, for this blog, I have decided to take a break from the meteorology and just have a social blog. The blog is only temporary however, and I will probably return to a meteorology themed blog next month.Even though I have been on the blogs for almost three years now, it is apparent that many people don'...
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The Flood of October 1994 Revisited

Tue, 6 Jan 2009 02:08:00 GMT

My next blog shall be one about the incredible flooding of October 1994 in Southeast Texas. The massive rainfall event set many records on the area rivers, as well as records for precipitation of like-sized storms and even possibly maybe setting a new world record for point rainfall in the 6 hour timeframe!The event all began when the moisture from the remminants of Pacific Hurricane Rosa entered SW Texas on October 15th. Rosa along with a low level flow of moisture...
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Update: Hurricane Ike Storm Surge Analysis

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 18:40:00 GMT

It has been a couple of months between the landfall of Hurricane Ike and the time of this writing, but the effects of the devastating hurricane are still being felt in many places in Texas and Louisiana. Even though Ike make landfall only as a category 2 on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale (SSHS), his resulting landfall brought untold misery that was characteristic of a hurricane 2 categories higher. The greatest contributing factor to this unique rampage of a cat...
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