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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jeff Lindner joins us. Jeff is with the Harris County
Flood Control District. He's there meteorologist, and he's kind of
our go to guy choice when it comes to predicting
what's going to happen with a big storm that's anywhere
near us. Boying, Jeff, what are you hearing about Francine.
What's the latest on that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I think the message this morning is cautiously optimistic here
for the Upper Texas coast. Like John mentioned, we've seen
some of this shifting to the east with the forecast track.
It still doesn't mean we're completely out of the woods.
It doesn't mean we won't have some impacts around here
on Wednesday, some gusty winds, maybe some rain near the coast,
and some elevated tides. But you know, looking a little
(00:37):
bit better here for the Upper Texas Coast. Unfortunately worse
for our friends over in Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
So not really even just folks to the immediate east
of US, Beaumont, that area that we always keep our
eye on to. You're saying more direct.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, probably a more direct impact over towards Lake Charles
and even further east than that, maybe the million Bay Area, Lafayette,
that portion of the south central portion of the Louisiana coasts,
or we'll probably have the direct impact of the storm. Again,
this is kind of gonna brush along the upper Texas
coast and so we will still have impacts here on Wednesday,
(01:14):
especially down Galveston, Texas City, Missouria County, Chambers County, Bolivar
High Island. Those areas will still have some dusty winds
forty fifty chance of tropical storm force winds along our
coastal areas on Wednesday, and some squalls and rain. Metro
area will probably get off pretty decently here up in
the end of the metro area. I don't think we'll
(01:35):
have a lot of rain and maybe fifteen twenty twenty
five on our winds. So again, this is kind of
going to brush us by off the coast and then
make landfall over in Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Looking at it on radar, is really sloppy. It hasn't
tightened up at all on any Is it for sure?
You think it's going to become like a cat one?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, it's It is pretty sloppy out there this morning,
a very elongated area of low pressure. You know, the
forecast walls a pretty uh in good agreement that as
this moves off to the north and then eventually turning
to the northeast, that center will tighten up. You know,
it's very warm waters over the northern northwestern Gulf, light wind, sheer, moisture.
It doesn't take a lot of time for these for
(02:14):
these systems, as we've seen in the past, to get
their act together. And this is kind of another one,
maybe a little bit similar to some of the other
ones we've seen in the past, Barrel and some of
the other ones that kind of as it comes up
to the coast, it strengthens and may continue to strengthen
into landsfall. So uh, you know, the preparation window today
and tomorrow southwest south central Louisiana, that's that's all the
(02:35):
time you're gonna have before this comes up and really
along our coast. Today and tomorrow is the time to
at least have supplies ready, be prepared. There could be
some isolated power outages down on Galveston and over on Bolliver,
but at this point we're not expecting any widespread power
outages like what we saw with Beryl.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Thanks got really quiet after Beryl. Why did things get
so quiet and why are they heating back up again.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, we had a quiet period there in the Atlantic
really for the month of August, really unusual considering generally
how favorable things look for developments. We'll have to take
a look at why exactly that happened. And now we
are starting to see the activity picked up a little
bit again. But I think some of the forecasts for
you know, twenty named storms are probably not going to
happen this year, but we could still see, you know,
(03:21):
over the next couple of weeks, several storms developed in
the Atlantic base and the good news for Texas, we're
starting to get fronts down here now and those kind
of protect us a little bit from tropical systems. We're
not totally out of the woods even after this system
moves through, but looking better in the Western Gulf the
later we get to.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
The season, all right, Jeff, always good to hear from you.
Thank you appreciate it. Harris County Flood Control Districts, Jeff Linder,
it's five fifty six
Jeff Lindner joins us. Jeff is with the Harris County
Flood Control District. He's there meteorologist, and he's kind of
our go to guy choice when it comes to predicting
what's going to happen with a big storm that's anywhere
near us. Boying, Jeff, what are you hearing about Francine.
What's the latest on that? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I think the message this morning is cautiously optimistic here
for the Upper Texas coast. Like John mentioned, we've seen
some of this shifting to the east with the forecast track.
It still doesn't mean we're completely out of the woods.
It doesn't mean we won't have some impacts around here
on Wednesday, some gusty winds, maybe some rain near the coast,
and some elevated tides. But you know, looking a little
(00:37):
bit better here for the Upper Texas Coast. Unfortunately worse
for our friends over in Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
So not really even just folks to the immediate east
of US, Beaumont, that area that we always keep our
eye on to. You're saying more direct.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, probably a more direct impact over towards Lake Charles
and even further east than that, maybe the million Bay Area, Lafayette,
that portion of the south central portion of the Louisiana coasts,
or we'll probably have the direct impact of the storm. Again,
this is kind of gonna brush along the upper Texas
coast and so we will still have impacts here on Wednesday,
(01:14):
especially down Galveston, Texas City, Missouria County, Chambers County, Bolivar
High Island. Those areas will still have some dusty winds
forty fifty chance of tropical storm force winds along our
coastal areas on Wednesday, and some squalls and rain. Metro
area will probably get off pretty decently here up in
the end of the metro area. I don't think we'll
(01:35):
have a lot of rain and maybe fifteen twenty twenty
five on our winds. So again, this is kind of
going to brush us by off the coast and then
make landfall over in Louisiana.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Looking at it on radar, is really sloppy. It hasn't
tightened up at all on any Is it for sure?
You think it's going to become like a cat one?
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Yeah, it's It is pretty sloppy out there this morning,
a very elongated area of low pressure. You know, the
forecast walls a pretty uh in good agreement that as
this moves off to the north and then eventually turning
to the northeast, that center will tighten up. You know,
it's very warm waters over the northern northwestern Gulf, light wind, sheer, moisture.
It doesn't take a lot of time for these for
(02:14):
these systems, as we've seen in the past, to get
their act together. And this is kind of another one,
maybe a little bit similar to some of the other
ones we've seen in the past, Barrel and some of
the other ones that kind of as it comes up
to the coast, it strengthens and may continue to strengthen
into landsfall. So uh, you know, the preparation window today
and tomorrow southwest south central Louisiana, that's that's all the
(02:35):
time you're gonna have before this comes up and really
along our coast. Today and tomorrow is the time to
at least have supplies ready, be prepared. There could be
some isolated power outages down on Galveston and over on Bolliver,
but at this point we're not expecting any widespread power
outages like what we saw with Beryl.
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Thanks got really quiet after Beryl. Why did things get
so quiet and why are they heating back up again.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, we had a quiet period there in the Atlantic
really for the month of August, really unusual considering generally
how favorable things look for developments. We'll have to take
a look at why exactly that happened. And now we
are starting to see the activity picked up a little
bit again. But I think some of the forecasts for
you know, twenty named storms are probably not going to
happen this year, but we could still see, you know,
(03:21):
over the next couple of weeks, several storms developed in
the Atlantic base and the good news for Texas, we're
starting to get fronts down here now and those kind
of protect us a little bit from tropical systems. We're
not totally out of the woods even after this system
moves through, but looking better in the Western Gulf the
later we get to.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
The season, all right, Jeff, always good to hear from you.
Thank you appreciate it. Harris County Flood Control Districts, Jeff Linder,
it's five fifty six
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