jojo762 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Certainly an interesting look to the core of Beta this afternoon on KHGX... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlcater Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Looks intriguing, but environment as a whole is still rather unfavorable, so I have my doubts that this feature will have any meaningful persistence. It'll be very easily disrupted. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windspeed Posted September 20, 2020 Author Share Posted September 20, 2020 Definitely intriguing to be sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hlcater Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Food for thought. I wonder if the dry air in vicinity is actually helping the current convective burst by allowing for steeper lapse rates (on the order of ~6.5c/km), much steeper than the typical 5s you'd expect in a moist neutral profile. More robust updrafts in the short term yielding a better radar configuration than you'd otherwise expect given IR appearance and environment??? That said, that same dry air almost certainly brings this to an end fairly soon here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floydbuster Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 I was shaking my head when they canceled the hurricane watches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windspeed Posted September 20, 2020 Author Share Posted September 20, 2020 Food for thought. I wonder if the dry air in vicinity is actually helping the current convective burst by allowing for steeper lapse rates (on the order of ~6.5c/km), much steeper than the typical 5s you'd expect in a moist neutral profile. More robust updrafts in the short term yielding a better radar configuration than you'd otherwise expect given IR appearance and environment??? That said, that same dry air almost certainly brings this to an end fairly soon here.You may be correct. The feature doesn't look as impressive and might be waning. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bugalou Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 Man the Gulf has had a knack of turning lemons into lemonade the past few year. The dry air will eventually get to Beta, but it is sure looking better today than I ever expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 4 hours ago, Windspeed said: That's not how this works. It's quiet at the moment because forecast and intensity trends are fairly locked down and there is no land interaction other than some marginal effects on Bermuda currently. But that doesn't mean you should ask the question in another storm thread. Delete your post and put it in the correct thread. Someone will notice. Already did hall monitor and it received no response 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windspeed Posted September 20, 2020 Author Share Posted September 20, 2020 Already did hall monitor and it received no response 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WEATHER53 Posted September 20, 2020 Share Posted September 20, 2020 2 minutes ago, Windspeed said: Thank you for your answer in the other thread. I had originally posed the question over 24 hours ago in that thread and it had been unanswered until an hour or two ago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windspeed Posted September 20, 2020 Author Share Posted September 20, 2020 Thank you for your answer in the other thread. I had originally posed the question over 24 hours ago in that thread and it had been unanswered until an hour or two ago Sometimes things get overlooked. Just have to repeat the question sometimes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prospero Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Nice burst of convection this morning. Decent winds at the Galveston Fishing Pier: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prospero Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 It's getting lighter in Texas. Here are some Galveston cams: https://www.galveston.com/webcams/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STxVortex Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Kind of quiet here for an active storm. TS Beta is meandering about 94sm to the ESE of me [as of the NHC 0400h reports]. The wind has now backed to the NW and brisk. Yesterday morning brought gusty NE/ENE winds and an inch or two of precip in rainbands, tapering off and intermittent since. CRP radar showing much less precip att, one large patch N of Victoria might swing over here in the weakening rotation. Except for the significant rain accumulations towards Houston, good ol' Beta kind of fizzled. It is following a sort of Harvey-ish track though, but with just a small fraction of Harvey's ACE. "4:00 AM CDT Tue Sep 22 Location: 28.8°N 96.7°W Moving: NW at 3 mph Min pressure: 999 mb Max sustained: 40 mph" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan11295 Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Houston is just a magnet for heavy rain from tropical systems. The 10-12" max rainfall in the last 18 hours just happens to be in SW Harris County. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STxVortex Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Well, TS Beta is about 6nm closer, pretty much the same wx with brisk NW winds. If that big ball of precip well N of Victoria holds together it might get wet here in a couple of hours. "7:00 AM CDT Tue Sep 22 Location: 28.8°N 96.8°W Moving: NW at 3 mph Min pressure: 999 mb Max sustained: 40 mph " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheeznado Posted September 22, 2020 Share Posted September 22, 2020 Radar estimates borne out by gauges- up to nearly 12" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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