A five-day cone of rain?
The National Hurricane Center just upgraded TD 9 to Tropical Storm Humberto. It is sitting just off the Upper Texas Coast and has been providing an abundance of rain here in Beaumont, Texas, today. We (Jefferson County) are (is) under (enough already!) a tropical storm warning here but that isn’t particularly as ominous as it sounds. Sez the hurricane predictors:
MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS HAVE INCREASED AND ARE NOW NEAR 45 MPH…75
KM/HR…WITH HIGHER GUSTS. SOME ADDITIONAL STRENGTHENING IS
POSSIBLE PRIOR TO LANDFALL … RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES ARE EXPECTED ALONG THE MIDDLE AND UPPER TEXAS COAST AND IN EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN LOUISIANA…WITH
ISOLATED MAXIMUM ACCUMULATIONS OF 15 INCHES POSSIBLE …
Okay, I must admit 15 inches of rain would definitely rain on someone’s picnic but if you are ignorant enough to have a picnic out in the middle of a tropical storm, you deserve some wet potato salad.
We (I) shall see what develops with Humberto, ¿dokey del okey?