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Hurricanes and Cyclones

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2012

    Early Forecasts Calling for a Quieter Than Normal Hurricane Season

    Did you enjoy the winter? Went quick, didn't it? It seems like just 15 minutes ago, we were all lounging in the cool Houston winter while our northern neighbors were breaking out the snow plows. We laughed and laughed. Now, we've started to reach that wonderful time when even your beads of sweat hav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    Houston's Long Hot Dry Year: 2011 Year in Weather

    There's an old saying, "If you don't like the weather in Texas, wait." In 2011, that statement was on full display as we suffered some of the wildest weather changes the state has ever seen. In Houston, there was at least some consistency. Unfortunately, that consistency came in the form of a bruta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Bold Prediction: Nate Won't Hit Houston and Neither Will Any Other Hurricanes This Season

    One of the reliable forecast models showing Nate hitting Mexico, leaving us high and dry.​I'm not much of a betting man, but if I were, I would take odds that the Texas coast, and Houston specifically, will see no hurricane landfalls in 2011. We have a pretty substantial tropical storm in Nate ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Drought Madness: Houston, You Want a Hurricane. Overwhelmingly

    ​It's clear the Drought of '11 has had some effect on the minds of Texans: They are actively in favor of getting hit with a tropical storm or hurricane if it will help bring about the end of the über-dry spell. Does everyone forget Ike or Allison? We asked readers if they would take a tropi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    The Cool Fronts, The Wild Fires and the High Pressure Shuffle

    Sad drought makes The Boss sad.​With apologies to Bruce Springsteen for a weak attempt at borrowing his album title, the truth is our weather has been about as crazy and out of control as a three-hour rock show, except instead of booming speakers, girls flashing the stage and a ring of pot smo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    Drought vs. Tropical Storm: Whose Side Are You On? Take Our Poll

    Careful what you wish for.​There's a 70 percent chance a tropical storm will develop in the Gulf in Mexico's Bay of Campeche. Computer models show a chance it could drift northward, strengthening and possibly becoming a large hurricane aimed at New Orleans or points east. It won't come to Te ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Why It's So Hot, When It Might End and Why We Should Count Our Blessings

    High pressure is like the Heat Miser but not claymation.​Polite elevator conversation usually includes something like, "How about that weather, huh?" Lately, that conversation might be more along the lines of, "Holy shit, I went outside and thought I was going to die!" Normally, summers in Hou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 28, 2011

    Tropical Storm Don: Will Houston See Any Effects?

    Is that a cone of uncertainty in your pocket, or are you just glad to see me?​As we thought, the forecast models, using the data from the National Hurricane Center reconnaissance aircraft came into fairly good agreement last night on the track of Tropical Storm Don and, unfortunately, it d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Dandy Don? Tropical Storm Could Bring Drought Relief This Weekend

    Courtesy Weather UndergroundSee that little cloud mass by the Yucatan Peninsula...that's our boy!​Remember a couple weeks ago when I told you that just because it had been quiet in the tropics, that didn't mean it would stay that way? Well, I hate to say I told you so. A disturbance that will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    TS Don: And Then, Depression Set In -- Tropical Storm Could Bear Down on Texas by Friday (Updated)

    Courtesy National Hurricane CenterLittle Donnie is getting bigger.​The National Hurricane Center reconnaissance plane found winds strong enough in Invest 90 to declare it the fourth tropical depression tropical storm of the 2011 hurricane season -- their next full report is at 6 p.m. As we m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2011

    Hurricane Update: The Calm Before the Storm?

    Let's hope not.​This year has brought record droughts, killer tornados and devastating flooding, yet our hurricane season has yet to rev up. This may cause some to believe we could be spared from substantial tropical activity this year. Don't believe it. What may seem like a quiet tropical At ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 29, 2011

    Run for Your Lives: Five Questions to Ask When You Are Considering Evacuating for a Hurricane

    ​It's almost July and we have our first Atlantic storm of the season in Tropical Storm Arlene. Fortunately, it doesn't appear that Arlene will grow larger than a minimal hurricane, if that, before it makes landfall along the Mexican gulf coast. Unfortunately, it won't come close enough to us ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2011

    App of the Week: Top Nine Websites for Hurricane Season

    Literally, the weather authority when it comes to hurricanes, it's hard to beat the NHC.​I swear that after this post, I will stop talking about weather apps and websites for a while, but since it is hurricane season here on the Gulf Coast, I figured one more post won't hurt anybody and it mig ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2011

    This Hurricane Season, Stock Up the Right Way

    Hey, Hurricane Ike Bear; quit dicking around and go buy some bottled water.​Weather agencies across the nation are predicting a much busier hurricane season this year than usual. NOAA predicts up to 10 hurricanes between now and November, with three to six of those being major hurricanes. Rem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    App of the Week: Three Hurricane Tracking Apps Just in Time for Hurricane Season

    Hurricane is about as good as it gets for tracking storms on your phone.​App: Hurricane Platforms: iPhone Web site: Apple Link Cost: $3.99 App: iHurricane HD Platforms: iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile Web site: Download Link Cost: $2.99 App: Hurricane Tracker Platforms: iPhone Web ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Comment of the Day: Remembering Hurricanes Alicia and Claudette

    ​We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it's time we paid some damn attention to them. So we'll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day's work. Maybe two comments, even. This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    The Five Worst Tropical Weather Events in Houston History

    The hurricane that hit Galveston in 1915 didn't have a name, but it left a mark.​Houston and Galveston, like any cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts of the U.S., are always vulnerable to tropical weather. The scariest of these events is most definitely the hurricane, with its fierce wind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 30, 2011

    Hurricane Season 2011: The Predictions

    Hurricane Ike's track from all the way out in the Atlantic to the Texas coast.​Hurricane season is upon us. Just like Christmas, but with high winds and death from above instead of toys and egg nog, it creeps up on us quicker than we expect and, before we know it, we're knee deep in a disaster ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 19, 2011

    Hurricane Predictions: Feds Say to Hunker Down

    Rita, when it was coming for us.​The time to predict hurricane season has arrived, and -- as with Texans season previews -- what's predicted doesn't always tend to be what happens. So get your grain of salt ready. (On the other hand, severe weather has been the norm elsewhere in the U.S. rece ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Summer AND Hurricane Season Over For Houston (Unofficially, But We're Going With It)

    We are NOT jinxing anything​Not to jinx anything, but it looks very much like Houston has avoided any real tropical storm experience in what was/is supposed to be the hyperactive hurricane season of 2010.When Eric Berger of the Houston Chronicle says so, that's good enough for us. And if we're ove ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2010

    10 by 10

    Local playwrights show off their short works

  • Calendar

    August 26, 2010

    10 by 10

    Local playwrights show off their short works

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2010

    Where The Hurricanes At? Weather Guys Say They Are Coming

    Despite predictions, 2010 is no 2005 for hurricanes.​Each year we are treated to a barrage of predictions from noted hurricane experts about how active a hurricane season we will have in the Atlantic basin which includes the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea. This year, the predictions were rat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 18, 2010

    Hurricanes And The Oil Spill: There's Good News And Bad News

    Hurricanes would help and hurt in fighting the spill​As oil continues flowing into the Gulf the first tropical storm of the season, Blas, is rolling off the Southwest Pacific coast of Mexico and another tropical disturbance is rumbling a few hundred miles south of the gulf of Tehuantepec, we're st ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Hurricane Season: You Can Officially Assume The Worst

    Let the worrying begin!​That weather disturbance out in the Atlantic is now considered unlikely to become Tropical Storm Alex. So we can all relax, right?No. The fact that we're even talking about a tropical disturbance there, at this point in the season, is oh so ominous, according to the experts ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2010

    Hurricanes: Rice Says Ike Was Nothing

    Just a fresh seabreeze compared to what could have been​Just in time for hurricane season, a group created in the wake of Ike has issued a report that should be entitled "The Bejesus, And Scaring It Out Of You."Remember Ike and how much that sucked? Destruction in Galveston, no electricity in Hous ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    Anti-Hurricane Consortium To Hold First Meeting...Just in Time for Hurricane Season

    ​A mere 19 months after Hurricane Ike treated the upper Texas coast like its musical namesake used to treat Tina, the Gulf Coast Community Protection and Recovery District is holding their first planning session: Galveston County is joined by Harris, Brazoria, Chambers, Jefferson and Orange c ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2009

    "Flotsam and Jetsam: Artists Respond to Hurricane Ike"

    Web exclusive

  • Culture

    August 27, 2009

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Steel Magnolias, The Story of Burford, Category 5, The Tamarie Cooper Show: Journey to the Center of My Brain (in 3-D)

    Web exclusive

  • Culture

    August 20, 2009

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Steel Magnolias, The Story of Burford, Category 5, The Tamarie Cooper Show: Journey to the Center of My Brain (in 3-D)

    Web exclusive

  • Blogs

    August 4, 2009

    Keep Your Fingers Crossed -- Now We're Down To Only Four Predicted Hurricanes

    ​The pattern seems to be holding up -- in the year after getting hit by a major storm, when you're all tense and on edge for hurricane season -- you get a break.The Colorado State University storm forecasters (Motto: Why Do We Care About Hurricanes In Colorado?) have once again cut the number of p ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 9, 2009

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Reckless, Steel Magnolias, The Story of Burford, Category 5, The Wiz

    ​The pattern seems to be holding up -- in the year after getting hit by a major storm, when you're all tense and on edge for hurricane season -- you get a break.The Colorado State University storm forecasters (Motto: Why Do We Care About Hurricanes In Colorado?) have once again cut the number of p ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 2, 2009

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Reckless, The Story of Burford, Category 5, The Wiz

    ​The pattern seems to be holding up -- in the year after getting hit by a major storm, when you're all tense and on edge for hurricane season -- you get a break.The Colorado State University storm forecasters (Motto: Why Do We Care About Hurricanes In Colorado?) have once again cut the number of p ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 18, 2009

    Capsule Stage Reviews: Beauty Queen of Leenane, Complete Works of William Shakespeare...Abridged, The Story of Burford, Category 5

    ​The pattern seems to be holding up -- in the year after getting hit by a major storm, when you're all tense and on edge for hurricane season -- you get a break.The Colorado State University storm forecasters (Motto: Why Do We Care About Hurricanes In Colorado?) have once again cut the number of p ... More >>

  • News

    March 19, 2009

    Sondheim, Con Men and Certain Death

    Highlights from the Blog at HOUSTONPRESS.COM

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    Katrina Housing Aid Is Ending. For Real, This Time

    It seems like a long, long time ago, those crazy days when hurricanes Katrina and Rita came ashore.In Houston, we mostly felt the effects of Katrina, of course, as New Orleans evacuees came over. Some started lives here, others eventually went home.But now -- finally, some would say -- the rent assi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2008

    Don't Let The Doorknob Hit You In The Ass On The Way Out, 2008 Hurricane Season

    As of 12:01 a.m. today, the 2008 hurricane season is over. That doesn't mean there won't be any more hurricanes, it just means when they occur we'll be told what a surprise they are.As a practical matter, of course, Texas is largely free of hurricanes once you get into late September.But now we're r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2008

    Always Look On The Bright Side Of Ike

    As of 12:01 a.m. today, the 2008 hurricane season is over. That doesn't mean there won't be any more hurricanes, it just means when they occur we'll be told what a surprise they are.As a practical matter, of course, Texas is largely free of hurricanes once you get into late September.But now we're r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2008

    Ten Reasons Drayton McLane Might’ve Rejected Bud Selig’s Plea to Get Out of Town

    As of 12:01 a.m. today, the 2008 hurricane season is over. That doesn't mean there won't be any more hurricanes, it just means when they occur we'll be told what a surprise they are.As a practical matter, of course, Texas is largely free of hurricanes once you get into late September.But now we're r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2008

    Houston Has a New Theme Song

    As of 12:01 a.m. today, the 2008 hurricane season is over. That doesn't mean there won't be any more hurricanes, it just means when they occur we'll be told what a surprise they are.As a practical matter, of course, Texas is largely free of hurricanes once you get into late September.But now we're r ... More >>

  • News

    September 18, 2008

    Bayousphere

    As of 12:01 a.m. today, the 2008 hurricane season is over. That doesn't mean there won't be any more hurricanes, it just means when they occur we'll be told what a surprise they are.As a practical matter, of course, Texas is largely free of hurricanes once you get into late September.But now we're r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008

    Time for the Astrodome to Step Up?

    As of 12:01 a.m. today, the 2008 hurricane season is over. That doesn't mean there won't be any more hurricanes, it just means when they occur we'll be told what a surprise they are.As a practical matter, of course, Texas is largely free of hurricanes once you get into late September.But now we're r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Can't Anyone Just Predict "Slightly Breezy And Seasonably Cool"?

    As of 12:01 a.m. today, the 2008 hurricane season is over. That doesn't mean there won't be any more hurricanes, it just means when they occur we'll be told what a surprise they are.As a practical matter, of course, Texas is largely free of hurricanes once you get into late September.But now we're r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2008

    Positive Pub For Mayor White

    As of 12:01 a.m. today, the 2008 hurricane season is over. That doesn't mean there won't be any more hurricanes, it just means when they occur we'll be told what a surprise they are.As a practical matter, of course, Texas is largely free of hurricanes once you get into late September.But now we're r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 11, 2008

    The Sound of Ike

    As of 12:01 a.m. today, the 2008 hurricane season is over. That doesn't mean there won't be any more hurricanes, it just means when they occur we'll be told what a surprise they are.As a practical matter, of course, Texas is largely free of hurricanes once you get into late September.But now we're r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2008

    Top Five Houstonians As Hurricanes

    As of 12:01 a.m. today, the 2008 hurricane season is over. That doesn't mean there won't be any more hurricanes, it just means when they occur we'll be told what a surprise they are.As a practical matter, of course, Texas is largely free of hurricanes once you get into late September.But now we're r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2008

    Neil Frank & Gene Norman -- The Odd Couple

    As of 12:01 a.m. today, the 2008 hurricane season is over. That doesn't mean there won't be any more hurricanes, it just means when they occur we'll be told what a surprise they are.As a practical matter, of course, Texas is largely free of hurricanes once you get into late September.But now we're r ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2007

    Time Bomb Defused

    As of 12:01 a.m. today, the 2008 hurricane season is over. That doesn't mean there won't be any more hurricanes, it just means when they occur we'll be told what a surprise they are.As a practical matter, of course, Texas is largely free of hurricanes once you get into late September.But now we're r ... More >>

  • Music

    July 20, 2006

    Life in a Hurricane

    The New Orleans sound of The Morning 40 Federation

  • News

    June 1, 2006

    Holy Sh--!

    The most-hyped hurricane season ever is upon us

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