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September 23, 2005

First Full Day of Fall

Hello there!
Right on cue... a fall-like day for us for the first full day of fall! Showers and thunderstorms are on-going this morning... and look like they'll stick around for awhile. Here is a look at the Radar image as of 8am (Click on it to see LIVE Triple Action Doppler's LATEST image):

Some parts of the viewing area saw some pretty heavy rainfall today, as thunderstorms were "training". Think of training as an actual train. Where thunderstorms line up and follow each other over the same location. That adds up to flood problems... see doppler esitmated rainfall totals below:

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Notice on the Kansas side... that is over 4 inches of rainfall! WOW! For that reason, we have seen FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS for those areas.

As for the rest of the day... well, this rain doesn't end here. The heaviest stuff will taper off... but light rain/drizzle and clouds could stick around. As you can see from the regional image below... more rain extends south and west from us:

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That means we will likely stay in the upper 60s for highs today... really fall-like!

Of course, we are still tracking Rita in the Gulf of Mexico. Now a CATEGORY 4 storm with winds at 140mph. Rita is dominating the news today... and some of the storys are already pretty amazing. We blogged a few days ago about the NUMBER of people in the Houston area that would have to evacuate... and by now I am sure you've seen the video of gridlock on the roads.

Here is the latest track, which takes the eye just east of Houston... but that entire white area is under the gun:

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