Hurricane Alex

Published on June 30, 2010 by admin · No Comments

Hurricane Alex

Well, our first hurricane of Atlantic season has arrived. Alex is the first hurricane since June 1995, which is pretty impressive. We can not see very often at this time of year, if earlier. The storm is a little over 200 miles south of Brownsville, Texas. The winds are 80 mph, and strengthening yet. It is moving WNW, but comments that the NHC said the storm was in no hurry to make landfall! The forecast track is to push this evening or tomorrow morning on the ground in northern Mexico. We’ll see rain and thunderstorms along the Gulf of Texas through Louisiana with the removal of heavy rains in the afternoon. Up to a foot of rain could fall in parts of southern Texas with isolated totals of 20 inches possible in the mountains. 2-4 inches of rain is possible even in Louisiana. You can also see isolated tornadoes during the day and night as the outer bands move across the earth. The storm surge 3-5 feet is possible along the southern coast of Texas, a rise of 1.2 feet west of the water in New Orleans.

Here is a consumer satellite view 3-D Tropical. This storm is enormous, and at least half of the Gulf. Tropical storm force winds extend 200 miles from the center of the storm.

On Wednesday, Alex had sustained winds of near 80 mph (130 km / h). The National Hurricane Center in Category 1 storm in June is the first hurricane of the Atlantic since 1995. He is on track to the border region between Texas and Mexico and is expected to make landfall in the night of Wednesday.
As Alex approached the efforts of skimming off the coast of Louisiana, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi had been arrested at his majority.

In the main staging area for oil cleanup around Grand Isle, the pen batteries, bottled water, refrigerators and cleaning materials are prepared to pay until the job is restarted.
Otis Brothers and Vahn Houma Butler got a job only three days ago.

“We were constantly busy until today,” said Otis Butler. “Now we are on every side and looking around. We just find things when you can do today. But once this is over, I bet you’ll be occupied twice.

Bands of heavy rain quickly flooded roads Wednesday in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, a worrying sign Alex expected to dump up to 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain in the region with perhaps 20 inches ( 50 centimeters) in isolated areas.

The hurricane could become a Category 2 storm with winds of 96 mph (154 km / h) before crashing in the coast Wednesday night or Thursday morning about 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Matamoros and Brownsville , Texas. The flat and marshy region is prone to flooding.

Tropical Storm Alex became Hurricane Alex this afternoon, the first in 2010.

The National Hurricane Center Storm Maximum sustained winds reached 75 miles per hour. Alex was expected to strengthen further the approach southern Texas and northern Mexico.

The storm will stay away from the site of BP’s oil spill, but stems from Alex could push more oil on the Gulf Coast.

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oil recovery operations were suspended due to high winds and waves caused not by the visit of Joe Biden, but the storm passes. The White House, National Incident Commander Admiral Thad Allen, Ray Mabus Secretary of the Navy, NOAA administrator, Dr. Jane Lubchenco, federal on-site Coordinator Admiral James Watson, Louisiana Governor, Bobby Jindal, and Representative Anh “Joseph” Cao was on hand to see talks on the release Biden, who has continued anyway.

The storm, known by the name Alex, the strengthening of a hurricane on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The hurricane was to bring strong winds and waves of 12 feet and torrential rains. This means that the janitors have to take on operations such as spraying dispersants and controlled burning of oil into the ocean.

The U.S. government believes that the blown-out, and spitting 35000-60000 barrels of oil per day, Reuters reported.

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