re: Harvey ***Catastrophic Flooding Event***

The major oceanographic current in the gulf of mexico is the loop current. Occasionally an eddy, or a spinning ring with a warmer core (the area on the map off texas coast that is kinda round) that is much warmer than the surrounding water. it will provide LOTS of energy for rapid intensification.

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Theres a chunk of hot water between Harvey and Texas coast.

Typically hurricanes eat up the energy like gasoline and it intensifies quickly. Katrina had a similar thing before it hit.

Also combine that with the eye clearing out and thats bad news bears for whoever is in front of it.

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apparently there's a warmcore eddy that harvey is going to pass over tomorrow morning?

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a spot of extra warm water that the storm will gobble up like

This will be a Cat 4 when it hits.

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Cell coverage is usually garbage in events like this. Land lines, as ancient as they seem to be, are much better prior to a significant hurricane in my experience.

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Or text.

Katrina was the first time I ever really used text messaging.

This just brings back Hurricane Ike memories. Ugh.

I have some friends that live in Seadrift(Calhoun County) and saw they're apparently planning on staying.

who was their builder?

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I have some friends that live in Seadrift(Calhoun County) and saw they're apparently planning on staying.

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I don't think they have a choice. Isn't that a mandatory evac zone?

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That pool of warm water along the LA coast isnt very nice if this thing gets kicked back out like the Euro is saying.

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The silver lining is that the warmer water off the coast of LA is on the shelf, and shallow water has been shown to hamper development of storms, even if it is relatively warm.

Warm, deep water is a bigger concern than shallow, deep water.