Our gorgeous weather will continue for several days with slightly cooler conditions trying to work their way into the region as high pressure builds in the wake of Ida’s remnants. Lots of sunshine is expected through Saturday. Temperatures will warm back to near 80 this weekend as high pressure shifts off to the east. Clouds will increase on Sunday ahead of the next frontal trough but this front appears to be lacking decent deep moisture for big rain chances but latest model guidance is coming in a little wetter Sunday into Monday…we’ll see if this is a trend. Meanwhile enjoy the nice weather!
Following on the rather extraordinary late season Gulf Hurricane Ida I received this email from meteorologist Donovan Landreneau at the National Weather Service in Lake Charles confirming that Ida will go in the record books. The following is verbatim:
“Tropical Storm Ida’s landfall tonight (assuming she keeps her tropical characteristics in the final hours before landfall) will make its mark in the record books as the latest tropical storm to affect Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Not in recorded history (since 1851) has there been a hurricane or tropical storm to affect Louisiana, Mississippi, or Alabama this late in the season..”
The previous record was Juan affecting Louisiana as a category 1 hurricane (75-85 mph) on October 28-29, 1985 and as a tropical storm on October 30-31, 1985; and finally making landfall as a tropical storm across the Mississippi/Alabama coast November 1, 1985.
However, the Florida Panhandle holds the record for the latest tropical cyclone landfall for the Northern Gulf Coast. Hurricane Kate made landfall as a category 2 hurricane (100 mph) near Mexico Beach, FL (between Panama City and Apalachicola) during the afternoon of November 21, 1985.
The latest hurricane to ever strike the United States was a category 1 hurricane during the evening of November 30 into the morning of December 1, 1925 across Central Florida just south of Tampa Bay. This same storm went on to affect the North Carolina Outer Banks late on December 2nd before finally dissipating on the 4th!
As far as Texas, there are no recorded tropical storms or hurricanes to affect the state in November. The latest South Texas hurricane landfall as a category 2 (100 mph) to affect areas between Brownsville and Corpus Christi on October 16, 1912. The latest Upper Texas hurricane landfall was Hurricane Jerry, making landfall as a category 1 hurricane across Galveston Island during the afternoon and evening of October 15, 1989
Rob, love your blog reports, tweets. But you must learn the difference between “there” and “their.” To confuse them just makes you sound uneducated, and I know that’s not true!
ann
10 Nov 09 at 7:56 pm