A tropical depression and tropical depression for Alberto, the First of the Atlantic hurricanes, as it moves out of the Southern Hemisphere
Alberto drenched coastal Texas as it made its way to Mexico on Wednesday, soaking numerous Deep South cities with between 2 and 5 inches of rain. It weakened to a tropical depression when it made it’s way to Mexico.
“Alberto is a very large system with rainfall, coastal flooding, and wind impacts extending far from the center,” the NHC said in an update at 10 a.m. CT.
The National Weather Service says heavy rain and flooding in South Texas will start decreasing on Thursday as the first of the Atlantic hurricanes, called Tropical Storm Albert, moves out to the Pacific.
Texas Public Radio reports that emergency management officials in Corpus Christi distributed sandbags to residents on Tuesday, in time for the winds and heavy rainfall that began early Wednesday, before Alberto even got its name.
Brennan said conditions along the Texas coast will gradually start to improve during the day Thursday. Forecasters expect Alberto to dissipate over Mexico by the end of the day.
“But we still got at least another 24 hours of relatively hazardous conditions,” he said. “So make sure you have multiple ways to get emergency information.”
Los Angeles and Sonoma County Fires are Containing Unlike the South Fork Fire, which reportedly had 27,000 acres on Wednesday night
As of Thursday, the Post Fire in Los Angeles and Ventura County, which has scorched more than 15,000 acres since Saturday, is 45% contained, as well as the Point Fire in Sonoma County, which started Sunday and is 60% contained.
Member station KQED reports that climate experts are warning of a busy California wildfire season, especially in September and October when conditions are even drier.
It said that the storm surge flooded the city of Surfside Beach, but no injuries were reported. No one showed up to the emergency shelters so the city closed them.
In Mexico, Alberto was a great danger. There were three deaths that were connected to the storm in the state of Nuevo Len, one of them being a man in a river.
As the winds and rains associated with Alberto have waned, the next storm in the western Atlantic is now the top of the forecasters’ minds.
The National Hurricane Center tweeted that the area of low pressure could become a tropical depression before it reaches the coast of northeast Florida or Georgia on Friday.
Thunderstorms on Wednesday night brought flash flooding, mudslides and a massive dust storm known as a haboob to parts of the state. It is unclear how much help the storms will give in quelling the fires.
According to member station KUNM, Lujan Grisham described it as one of the most devastating fires in New Mexico history. The South Fork Fire will be the main focus of the additional 200 to 300 firefighters, as it approaches high density areas.
And they confirmed that two people had been killed, a 60-year-old man found by the side of the road near a motel and another unidentified person in the driver’s seat of a burned vehicle — both in or near Ruidoso, the village between the two fires. Some 8,000 Ruidoso residents remain under evacuation orders.
By Wednesday night, the fires were still zero percent contained. Officials said then that the blazes had damaged some 1,400 structures, including 500 believed to be homes.
Source: Heat and snowfall, rain and wildfires. It’s a week of extreme weather in the U.S
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a state of emergency for the Salt Fire, South Fork Fire and High-Energy Floods
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham declared a state of emergency early Tuesday for regions impacted by the Salt Fire and South Fork Fire, which alighted the previous day and have since burned more than 23,000 acres — a combined area larger than the size of Manhattan.
Areas of higher elevation, including the Showdown ski mountain, were hit with snow. And the cold front continued into Wednesday, the last astronomical day of spring, breaking more records across Montana.
The NWS stated that the rain and thunderstorm areas are occurring near an upper ridge that edges from the Mid-Atlantic into the Mid-South over the next few days and sustains a heat wave across the Great Lakes, Northeast, and Mid-Atlantic.
A heat dome can last for a few days or weeks. Climate change is resulting in more common and intense storms and droughts as a result of them.
Parts of Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont, among others, shattered temperature records, some that stood for more than 100 years.
Everyone is being urged to take steps to keep safe, especially people without air conditioning, as forecasters say record warm overnight temperatures will prevent natural cooling.
Temperatures are also predicted to rise in the west on Thursday and Friday before reaching triple digits in California’s Central Valley and Great Basin over the weekend.
Over one million residents of the West were under a frost or snow advisory on Monday, after parts of Montana and Idaho were under a winter storm warning earlier this week.