I'm still amazed it's even classified. If they can't close off a center, it's not even supposed to be a tropical depression - yet alone a 60mph tropical storm! I'll be utterly SHOCKED if this becomes a hurricane - heck, I wouldn't be surprised to see it weaken. It's one big rain storm with some high wind gusts, basically, and is barely a tropical storm per the definition of one. Oh well.
I just look at radar and theres a nice little band of convection trying to wrap around the center -- this tells me we'll at least have a category one hurricane to deal with. And about this storm being nothing but a measely tropical storm -- tell that to my weekend neighbors who are down in jamica beach galveston getting there ass hammered pretty good right now. Oh btw, the storms still stationary being fueled by the gulfs warm water.
yeah..i understand galveston took 1.5 inches of rain by noon this morning...it will only get worse from there.
Mfclark, what you need to realize is that Galveston Island is not very wide - i guesstimate its no more than 4 to 6 miles across from the bay to the ocean, and much less than that on the west end. There is a seawall that runs along the main part of galveston but the west end is unprotected. So a Slow moving depression or a so called weak tropical storm can be very damaging when it sits stationary right off the coast. What happens is the storm surge rises and rises, tempting the bay to meet the ocean, usually causing the most damage on the west end where erosion from previous tropical systems has already occured. So wind factor or no wind factor, this storm is still setting it self up to be a B.A.M.F. Also, if I remember correctly, during one night and morning right before moving inland, hurricane Elisha went from being a 75mph hurricane to a 115 mph hurricane.
