There are no alerts currently posted for UTMB. We are watching weather in the gulf (west of Florida) with the potential for development, but nothing yet.
Monthly Archive for September, 2007
We’ve been watching a tropical weather system for several days that has now become a little better organized as it approaches the Texas coast south of Galveston Island.
Earlier today, Tropical Depression Nine was upgraded to Tropical Storm Humberto by the National Hurricane Center. At 3 p.m., the center of Tropical Storm Humberto was about 40 miles south of Freeport, Texas, with maximum winds of 45 mph, mostly east of the center in the heavier squalls. Humberto has been moving just slightly right of due north, at about 6 mph, for the past 6 hours. On this course, the center should reach the coast between Freeport and Galveston just before midnight tonight (Wednesday night). Heavy squalls north of Humberto’s center are already moving ashore from Freeport to Galveston. These squalls will move inland across southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana this evening and spread northward into east Texas and western Louisiana during the day on Thursday. Due to the close proximity to land, forecasters do not expect any significant strengthening prior to landfall. Read rest of message…