The winds have really picked up across the Big Country today in response to a tighening pressure gradient. This is all ahead of a cold front I expect to shift winds around to the Northwest Sunday. The only problem is, there isn' much cold air to tap into, so temperatures will still climb to near 70 Sunday.
Rainfall totals were not all that impressive unfortunately. Although some areas fared better than others. As the second disturbanced moved through the Big Country overnight Friday into Saturday, moderate to heavy rain fell across the Eastern Big Country. We'll talk more about rainfall totals tomorrow or Monday.
If you have a rain gauge and would like to share your rainfall totals, please either comment here on the board, or e-mail me at ccarnesi@krbc.tv, and I will share your anonymous total with all of our readers. I will only share your total and town, not your name, I promise!
With the strong winds this afternoon, the National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for most of the Big Country. This is the statement from the National Weather Service in San Angelo:
421 AM CST SAT JAN 28 2006
...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST
THIS AFTERNOON...
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN SAN ANGELO HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG
WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 6 PM CST
THIS AFTERNOON. THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT.
EXPECT STRONG SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS TODAY ACROSS WEST CENTRAL TEXAS
AS ANOTHER COLD FRONT SWEEPS EAST ACROSS TEXAS. ALTHOUGH MOST OF
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS HAS RECEIVED MEASURABLE RAINFALL DURING THE
PAST 24 HOURS...VERY DRY AIR BEHIND THE FRONT WILL PRODUCE
RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES IN THE 15 TO 18 PERCENT RANGE ACROSS THE
BIG COUNTY AND MOST OF THE CONCHO VALLEY TODAY. ELSEWHERE ACROSS
WEST CENTRAL TEXAS...GREATER RAINFALL DURING THE LAST 24 HOURS
WILL HOLD RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ABOVE 20 PERCENT TODAY.
THUS...A RED FLAG WARNING WILL NOT BE NECESSARY FOR THOSE
COUNTIES.
A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE
EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF STRONG
WINDS...LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND UNSEASONABLY WARM TEMPERATURES
THIS AFTERNOON WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL
Also, the National Hurricane Center upgraded Tropical Storm Cindy to Hurricane Cindy
from the 2005 season. After a tropical season the hurricane center will publish
reports on each individual storm, and sometimes will upgrade, or downgrade systems.
Below are the updated totals from this past season. The graphic is courtesy of
www.accuweather.com.
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