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Am I the only nutter that would really,really like to be over there experiencing this 1st hand :o I would love to be one of those reporters, my dream job on a night like this. Here is an interesting link to all the bouy readings in the path of Rita. http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/radial_search.php...dist=250&time=3

000 WTNT33 KNHC 240453 TCPAT3 BULLETIN HURRICANE RITA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 26A NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL MIDNIGHT CDT SAT SEP 24 2005 ...EYE OF MAJOR HURRICANE RITA WOBBLING TOWARD LANDFALL NEAR THE LOUISIANA/TEXAS BORDER...STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAINS BATTERING SOUTHERN LOUISIANA AND SOUTHEASTERN TEXAS... A HURRICANE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM SARGENT TEXAS TO MORGAN CITY LOUISIANA. A HURRICANE WARNING MEANS THAT HURRICANE CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. PREPARATIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY SHOULD HAVE ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR THE SOUTHEASTERN COAST OF LOUISIANA EAST OF MORGAN CITY TO THE MOUTH OF THE PEARL RIVER... INCLUDING METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS AND LAKE PONTCHARTRAIN... AND FROM SOUTH OF SARGENT TEXAS TO PORT ARANSAS TEXAS. A TROPICAL STORM WARNING MEANS THAT TROPICAL STORM CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED WITHIN THE WARNING AREA WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS. FOR STORM INFORMATION SPECIFIC TO YOUR AREA...INCLUDING POSSIBLE INLAND WATCHES AND WARNINGS...PLEASE MONITOR PRODUCTS ISSUED BY YOUR LOCAL WEATHER OFFICE. AT MIDNIGHT CDT...0500Z...THE CENTER OF HURRICANE RITA WAS LOCATED NEAR LATITUDE 29.2 NORTH... LONGITUDE 93.5 WEST OR ABOUT 40 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF SABINE PASS ALONG THE GULF COAST AT THE TEXAS/LOUISIANA BORDER. RITA IS MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHWEST NEAR 11 MPH. THIS GENERAL MOTION IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE UNTIL LANDFALL. A GRADUAL TURN TOWARD THE NORTH-NORTHWEST IS EXPECTED ON SATURDAY. REPORTS FROM AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT INDICATE MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS REMAIN NEAR 120 MPH...WITH HIGHER GUSTS. RITA IS A DANGEROUS CATEGORY THREE HURRICANE ON THE SAFFIR-SIMPSON SCALE. LITTLE CHANGE IN STRENGTH IS EXPECTED PRIOR TO LANDFALL. GRADUAL WEAKENING IS EXPECTED AFTER RITA MOVES INLAND. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 85 MILES FROM THE CENTER...AND TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS EXTEND OUTWARD UP TO 205 MILES. AN AUTOMATED STATION AT SEA RIM STATE PARK TEXAS RECENTLY REPORTED SUSTAINED WINDS OF 70 MPH WITH A GUST TO 83 MPH...WHILE AN AUTOMATED STATION AT CALCASIEU PASS LOUISIANA RECENTLY REPORTED A GUST OF 98 MPH. THE MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE JUST REPORTED BY THE HURRICANE HUNTER IS 934 MB...27.58 INCHES. COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 15 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE LEVELS... LOCALLY UP TO 20 FEET AT HEAD OF BAYS AND NEARBY RIVERS...WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS BATTERING WAVES...CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF WHERE THE CENTER MAKES LANDFALL. TIDES ARE CURRENTLY RUNNING ABOUT 2 FEET ABOVE NORMAL ALONG THE LOUISIANA...MISSISSIPPI AND ALABAMA COASTS IN THE AREAS AFFECTED BY KATRINA. TIDES IN THOSE AREAS WILL INCREASE TO 4 TO 6 FEET AND BE ACCOMPANIED BY LARGE WAVES... AND RESIDENTS THERE COULD EXPERIENCE COASTAL FLOODING. LARGE SWELLS GENERATED BY RITA WILL LIKELY AFFECT MOST PORTIONS OF THE GULF COAST. SINCE RITA IS EXPECTED TO SLOW DOWN DURING THE NEXT FEW DAYS... RAINFALL TOTALS OF 10 TO 15 INCHES ARE EXPECTED OVER EASTERN TEXAS AND WESTERN LOUISIANA. MAXIMUM RAINFALL TOTALS IN EXCESS OF 25 INCHES COULD OCCUR OVER LOCALIZED AREAS. RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 3 TO 5 INCHES WITH ISOLATED HEAVIER TOTALS ARE POSSIBLE OVER SOUTHEASTERN LOUISIANA INCLUDING METROPOLITAN NEW ORLEANS. ISOLATED TORNADOES ARE POSSIBLE TONIGHT...SATURDAY...AND SATURDAY NIGHT OVER FAR EASTERN TEXAS...LOUISIANA...SOUTHERN ARKANSAS...AND MISSISSIPPI. REPEATING THE MIDNIGHT CDT POSITION...29.2 N... 93.5 W. MOVEMENT TOWARD...NORTHWEST NEAR 11 MPH. MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS...120 MPH. MINIMUM CENTRAL PRESSURE... 934 MB. AN INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY WILL BE ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER AT 2 AM CDT FOLLOWED BY THE NEXT COMPLETE ADVISORY AT 4 AM CDT. FORECASTER BEVEN

http://www.weatherserver.net/ritavideotexas.htm Looks to my amateur eye that the eye wall collapsed as she neared land. http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float-vis-loop.html

Houston /TX is 6 hours behind us not 5 i think

Christ Mondy, you had me a bit confused there for a minute................ I thought you were there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Many congratulations to you all.....sleepless nights await. Thank god Im all finished with that malarky. My 3 are all in school this week yipee

Well us lot in Lincolnshire eventually got our storm last night at about 10pm. which then proceeded to carry on till well god knows what time cos the leccie went out, I think it was about 1am before it all eventually passed away. Me and the boys went into the farmers crop field with Video cameras and hopefuly have got some good footage. We watched the storm approaching from 20 miles away, some fantastic CC's and many many CG's. We were quite close (but not that close!!!) to the HUGE radio ariels on the base and at one point it was struck while we were filming, all 3 of us hit the deck and I will have to put in BBC Bleeps on the footage. Very Loud crack as it hit almost deafening. I think the boys (9 and 10) now appreciate how powerfull and dangerous thunder storms are, but also how stunningly exciting they are too. My first storm this season and not a bad one either. so lets have some more when we move to the Cotswolds please.

disgustingly hot again here today highest recorded temp 33.5c at 2 pm

A humid night last night at 17.7c, this morning was cloudy till about 2pm when the sun burnt off the clouds and it became very very hot, highest recorded temp today ( in the shade, north facing 0 was a scorching 30.6c and it's still 25 in the shade now.!!!! Im looking forward to some cracking storms tomorrow

we too had a thuder storm last night, 1st one in years. cool

well we had heavy snow for 3 hours solid, accumilating to about 3 inches. The temperature is now rising to 1.1c and it has already started to melt. Its a bit of a pain actually because it doesn't stay on the ground longer than a few hours. Still we shouldn't complain, apparantly more is due later. oh joy

OMG We have snow and lots of it and its very heavy. I actually didn't expect this Current temps 0.3c 998 mb

light rain here in south Lincolnshire, pretty dismal actually. It doesn't feel very cold not like yesterday when the wind was frezzing in jeans. Temp 3.2c and rising 1001mb

After this winters record lows of -5c last night it stoill doesn't feel much warmer at 4c now. just started to get snow flurries in the last 15 mins. Shouldn't think it will amount to much though.

Hi guys, we had a stunning morning here but about 2pm the shies clouded over and it got really cold about 3c. We have had very fine snow ever since but its not accumilating at all. Just pretty to watch.

for some very odd reason it is snowing very lightly here, we had a heavy hail shower about 45 mins ago. I cannot see anything on the radar and am very confused. Mayby the weather is taking pity on me for snowing constantly for 7 hours today and not one bit of it sticking

Morning all, was expecting a lot of snow last night but it didnt happen. However it is snowing heavily now. current temp. 0.7c Snow is wet, sticking to grass but not paths.

OK here in South Lincolnshire we have had light snow for about 30 mins ( a record for the last 3 days!!) however I think the beast has arrived and we now have big, fat, fluffy flakes and lots of them. Me thinks this could be in for the night.

It has just started to blizzard here, wind howling snow horizontal.

since my last post we have had 4 heavy snow showers here so far today. I wonder what the night will bring update, it has just started to snow as I type.

We seem to have missed two rather large showers that went to the South west of us however over the last 15 minutes it has clouded over completely and we now have moderate to heavy snow.