Texas Tropical Question...

Yankeegirl · #1 Postby **Yankeegirl** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:56 am

Just a quick thought... and I would like some input on it... Is there any connection or just "seems that way" when the Houston area has a dry sping we get some kind of tropical "something" ? Just a thought, it always seems to be that way... I am getting sick of watering the grass!

#2 Postby **vbhoutex** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:05 am

I have never tied a dry spring to tropical activity here along the Texas coast, but I haven't researched it either. However, I have noticed over my years on the GOM coast that very often, not just in the spring, when there is an extended dry and usually hot period it seems to take a tropical system of some sort to break the cycle. Past that if the pattern sets up how it appears it will this summer, unfortunately some tropical systems could be steered further West towards TX, unlilke last year, which saw fronts dipping far South late in the spring/early summer and scooping up the tropical systems and delivering them to our FL friends.

#3 Postby **BayouVenteux** » Thu Apr 21, 2005 7:36 am

vbhoutex wrote:unlilke last year, which saw fronts dipping far South late in the spring/early summer and scooping up the tropical systems and delivering them to our FL friends.

yep...and let's not forget the late July to mid-August fronts that made it all the way into the central Gulf of Mexico. Lows in the 50's in south Louisiana the first week of August!? Rare indeed! But one person's paradise can be another's poison...the mean trough position and associated fronts last summer made for the abnormal cooler and drier period that we experienced along the northwestern and west-central Gulf Coast, but one in particular had a large impact on Hurricane Charley both in terms of aiding rapid intensification and steering the system into southwest Florida.