Hurricane Francine creates rough conditions for Coastal Bend Beaches

Published: Sep 10, 2024 Duration: 00:03:00 Category: News & Politics

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It is the weather impact alert for dangerous rip currents as Francine strengthens there in the Gulf of Mexico, any local impact shifts. So we'll keep you up to date. But as far as as the rain goes, no rain opportunities, we are going to see coastal flooding and caution on the water is needed uh because of Francine. So this storm is moving northeast. Confidence in that now it is moving uh at 10 MPH, wind, 90 MPH sustained, expected to strengthen to a category two storm before landfall there on the Louisiana coastline. So our wave heights right now, 9 to 11 ft out there at our buoys closer to the coastline, around 6 7 ft, wind is out the north right now at 60 MPH. So it's that northerly wind that in turn because of coriolis effect has a little bit of a net force under the water. There's a spiral that goes on when you have northerly wind and a strong kind of down shore current that pushes the net force of the water a little bit more of the coast. And that's really the reason why we are seeing coastal flooding. It's not necessarily because we are under a storm surge threat. We are just seeing the tides go up a bit because we have higher waves and that northern wind that's pushing the water up our coastline. Just a tad more the stronger storm surge threat is going to be for eastern Louis Anna and into portions, even a Mississippi could be dealing with some of that storm surge uh with that category two storm right now, our wind or as I said right now, but Thursday, our wind really starts to calm down. We will see big improvements out on the water, much safer conditions. Thursday, Friday and into Saturday, here's our wave height forecast. Look at that drop. We're talking 1 ft waves Friday on Saturday. We may see a brief uptick in waves Monday and Tuesday that comes back with a more onshore push uh out in our Gulf of Mexico water. So wind is going to be fairly breezy, but typical for South Texas, in fact, much lighter than we've been dealing with. So that'll be a pleasant, uh pleasant feeling outside, not having to deal with those stronger winds. We will see 7 to 17 mile per hour winds over Friday and Saturday, uh but the wave action pretty light. So here again, some of the latest on Francine with our buoys offshore, not expecting tropical storm conditions at this point as Francine continues to eye and make a, a path toward Louisiana it's going to be on the right side of that storm where we see the strongest wind, the strongest storm surge and even the tornado threat. We are far on the left side. So we are getting the much drier air mixing into our area on this Wednesday, 76 degrees. We are going to see temperatures warming. Yes, back into the nineties heat index value is back around 100. But again, the biggest impact from Francine is we are dealing with that coastal flooding, coastal flood warning through 1 p.m. on Thursday. However, today is our, our biggest impact day. So today on your Wednesday, no more weather impact alerts for the rest of the week, we have a low chance for a little bit of rain next week, but it doesn't look like much Barbie John Thomas.

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