Hurricane Dolly -now a Cat2- to make landfall today.
From the NHC
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Dolly strengthening as it approaches the southern Texas coast...
a Hurricane Warning remains in effect for the coast of Texas from Brownsville to Corpus Christi....At 800 am CDT...1300z...the center of Hurricane Dolly was located
near latitude 25.9 north...longitude 96.9 west or about 40 miles ...east of Brownsville Texas....Dolly is expected to produce total rainfall accumulations of 6 to 10 inches...with isolated amounts of 15 inches...over portions of south Texas and northeastern Mexico over the next few days.
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1. the link is to the long range Brownsville radar
2. the Rio Grande valley will get a huge dump of rain... probably a few areas (most in Mexico where drainage is unimproved) will get flooded to 2nd story window level
Posted by: mhw 2008-07-23 |