Hanna's Eyewall Reaches Texas Coast...

At the noon hour, the center/eye of Hurricane Hanna is still over the Gulf, but the western most eyewall has reached land.  Winds are gusting 50-60 mph at Corpus Christi and they will be in the eyewall shortly. The westward motion has slow to only 6-7 mph so the actual center/eye won't be inland until later this afternoon.  Hanna has a huge eye of 35 miles wide!

Fortunately the season's first hurricane is making landfall over a less populated part of the Texas coast, hopefully meaning the damage will be minimal?  Normally, as a hurricane pulls away from us, we see fewer clouds/showers and more sunshine.  But not with Hanna.

Notice how a "glob" of moisture has broken away from Hanna's circulation and is soaking SE LA/MS.  The heaviest totals (1-2") have occurred east of the Pearl River.  With clouds and showers, out temps has been kept mostly in the 70s to mid 80s.   We may be stuck with this rainy pattern into Monday as there is nothing to move it away.

This is what's left of Gonzalo and we can write him off as he dissipates over the Caribbean.

Coming off of Africa will be our next named storm ( Isaias) that already appears to have a circulation.   Unlike Gonzalo, this system will track at a higher latitude likely becoming a threat to many more land areas.   It's over 10 days from reaching the Gulf IF it were to come our way.  We'll have all next week to watch him .    Stay tuned!