Comments on: Tropical Storm Bertha

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:30:03 +0000

California needs a week of light rain, maybe a half-inch per day, not 6 inches in two hours washing the hills into the valleys.

You certain don’t need something like Georges that dumped a foot of rain a day for four days. Even the sand couldn’t soak it up.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:13:39 +0000

jill, I didn’t mean to sound flippant; I know what a disaster those fires are proving to be. But a major storm coming ashore can be more devastating than anyone who hasn’t experienced one can imagine.

I don’t even want to think what a wildfire followed by such a storm would be like… even the “controlled” burns the Forest Service used to do near my late parents’ home in rural East Texas scared the fool out of me… but I’ve been through three real hurricanes and Tropical Storm Allison (the worst flood event in Houston in recorded history), and however much you need water on those fires, believe me, a major storm is not a good way to get that water.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:52:45 +0000

Jeff Masters doesn’t think much of 93L, but he is more concerned with the Bay of Campeche possibility as the conditions are much more favorable.

As Steve says, Jill, you don’t want one of these suckers if you have hills, especially hills recently denuded by fires. That’s why the worst death toll from last year was a tropical storm – it passed over Haiti, which has deforested hills.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:36:07 +0000

Trust us coast-dwellers, jill: you don’t need rain like that.

Invest 93 certainly bears watching, Bryan, for both of us.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:04:56 +0000

Send it this way. We need the rain.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:20:40 +0000

This looks like an Atlantic fish botherer, but they are talking about something developing later in the week in the Gulf of Campeche in the southern Gulf of Mexico. Those storms pop up and move quickly, so the local stress level just spiked.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:03:29 +0000

Eeep. It’s that time of year again already?

And the New Orleans levees still are broken ;-(. My suggestion to New Orleanians: Buy a boat, and moor it to your roof.