I second that Andrew. Welcome new members and guests! As I say....weather is life.

Wow SE LA Flash Flood Watch......ioslated 15-20" rains! FLOOD WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 403 AM CDT THU SEP 1 2011 ...A FLASH FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THE WEEKEND... .AN UPPER LEVEL LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IN THE MIDDLE GULF OF MEXICO WAS INTERACTING WITH A SURFACE TROPIC...

Coastal Flood Watches and Flash Flood Watches hoisted for LA. COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAKE CHARLES LA 1016 AM CDT THU SEP 1 2011 ...STRONG ONSHORE WINDS TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE COASTAL WATERS... .A TROPICAL WAVE OVER THE CENTRAL GULF OF MEXICO WILL CONTINUE PUSHING TO THE WEST ...

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HOUSTON/GALVESTON TX 450 AM CDT THU SEP 1 2011 ...VERY UNCERTAIN FORECAST WITH TROPICAL DEVELOPMENT POSSIBLE IN THE GULF OF MEXICO HEADED INTO LABOR DAY WEEKEND... .DISCUSSION... VERY TRICKY FORECAST TO SAY THE LEAST SO LETS GET TO IT. FIRST...MAIN F...

We need the rain skidog38 but not a cane. I will take what I can get hopefully without the wind.

BULLETIN TROPICAL STORM KATIA ADVISORY NUMBER 5 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL122011 500 AM AST TUE AUG 30 2011 ...NEW TROPICAL STORM MOVING QUICKLY WEST-NORTHWESTWARD ACROSS THE TROPICAL ATLANTIC... SUMMARY OF 500 AM AST...0900 UTC...INFORMATION ------------------------------------------...

Joe B tweeted WGOM homebrew for Labor Day. The moisture is pooling over the W Caribbean and the pattern change will push this into the GOM. Lowering pressures advertised in model runs along with very warm SSTs could lead to tropical concerns. Time to pay attention to the GOM especially since we are ...

New Orleans AFD: FRI AND INTO NEXT WEEKEND...THE MDLS ARE STRUGGLING IN HOW THEY HANDLE THE RIDGE AND A POSSIBLE WEAK UPPER LOW OVER TX/WRN GULF. THE ECMWF AND CANADIAN ARE A LITTLE FURTHER NORTH WITH THE RIDGE AND STRONGER WITH THE UPPER LOW AND THEN PUSH IT EAST INTO THE GULF. THIS COULD LEAD TO A...

The size of Irene is amazing. She would fill most of the GOM. I hope everyone is heeding the evacs and getting off the Outer Banks now. It will look like Bolivar after IKE.

A wonderful 1.43" in League City this morning!

Not a good time for the Houston-Galveston NWS to offline as a massive outflow boundary enters SE TX.

Even hotter temps Friday and Saturday?....109F IAH Friday!? OVER THE WEEKEND...THE UPPER RIDGE NUDGES CLOSER AND BELIEVE IT OR NOT...EVEN HOTTER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED. A CONVERGENCE OF DRY AND SUBSIDENT AIR WILL LEAD TO INTENSE AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES ON FRIDAY AND AGAIN SATURDAY. THE NAM 12...

From the NHC this evening: A BROAD LOW PRESSURE AREA CENTERED A COUPLE HUNDRED MILES SOUTH OF THE CAPE VERDE ISLANDS IS PRODUCING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS APPEAR FAVORABLE FOR SOME DEVELOPMENT OF THIS LOW DURING THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS. THIS SYSTEM HAS A MEDIUM CHA...

Still looks to be a possible SE US event. Irene holding steady overnight. 000 WTNT34 KNHC 230832 TCPAT4 BULLETIN HURRICANE IRENE ADVISORY NUMBER 12 NWS NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL AL092011 500 AM EDT TUE AUG 23 2011 ...IRENE LASHING THE NORTHERN COAST OF THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC... EXPECTED TO ...

Reading Tweets and Facebook posts on 120MPH flight level winds and 93MPH at the surface. Irene is wrapping tonight and will be a very significant threat to the SE US.

Thanks for the Alicia information. Alicia was my first hurricane experience just as I was entering my freshman year at Pearland High. I cant believe its been 28 years! I remember watching Alicia during the night looking out the top of my window. The walls shook several times around 3AM as the NE eye...

Thanks Tireman! Funny that you were my first pick for a new Mod.

Still looks to be a SE US event as models continue to cluster over FLA. Hopefully interaction with the islands will keep Irene a minimal hurricane however extremely warm SSTs exist in the Florida Straits.

Thanks Ptarmigan for sharing! Could you imagine the amount of damage that would occur with another 1886 hurricane?

It would be nice if the slow moving outflow boundary in NE Texas made its way into N portions of SE TX and fired off some storms however I do not have much hope.