Water is definitely on the road during rain around here
Hey, Community. Been a little wild in Texas lately, and I haven't been posting as often as I like, as there has been a lot of goings-on outside of my state. It's my birthday today, send gifts if you like ;) What better way to wrap up a birthday than with a restart to the flooding storms we've been experiencing here (I'm being a little sarcastic, now) - There comes a point in even this storm-lover's life, when the thin line between enthrallment and torment are crossed. We have had some record floods in Texas, and as you can imagine, it's not all fun and games.

Jim Cantore was out this way last week - Sorry, no pics to share. I was watching him at home during the Double Es along with everyone else who had TWC on - but, think about it - how often does Mr. Hurricane/Storm-Tracker Jim Cantore show up at a small town to cover a rain event? Marble Falls, Tx. picked up *nineteen* inches of rain in twenty-four hours, with most of that falling in under eight! Boats that didn't end up stuck in trees, were slammed into garages, or run into cars.. one was even sent streaming over Lake Marble Falls, just northwest of Austin.

These torrential rains in the south central U.S. have been very similar in not only effect, but in actual structure, to a decaying inland tropical cyclone that sits and spins itself, and its moisture, out. These storms even inspired an in-depth post from Dr. Steve Lyons in The Weather Channel Blog last week, and an in-depth post today from Severe Weather Expert, Dr. Greg Forbes.

Going forward, much of Texas is looking at an additional two to five, and perhaps even isolated totals of between ten and fifteen, inches of rain this week. Not good.


To change gears a bit. It looks like another surface Low might be Invest "tagged" shortly. This one currently out in the central Atlantic. We'll see by perhaps as early as tomorrow morning if it has been, and start tracking it more closely if in fact it does develop a little more, as it continues generally west-northwestward toward the general direction of the Caribbean - for now.