Archive for July 1st, 2010

The clearing line is progressing southward slowly this morning…..a sign of lesser rain chances in our future.  The best chance of a shower today will lie south of I-20 with better chances of anything scattered south of I-85.  Most of that will be thanks to a stalled out boundary that is drifting southward and some indirect effects of ex-hurricane Alex that slammed into Mexico last evening.

This is an image of Alex shortly before landfall off of the Brownsville NEXRAD site.  The pressure bottomed out at 947mb with maximum ESTIMATED sustained winds of 105 mph.  I tend to believe that this actually may have been a major hurricane (category 3) at landfall with a pressure that low.  The post storm NHC investigation will hopefully prove that.  This is the second strongest June hurricane EVER in the Atlantic basin.