Dean Headed to South of Brownsville

The recent runs of GFS all make Dean a Type 0 Hurricane. It is headed for Mexico, south of Brownsville and Matamoros. However, some of the other models show it going farther north, such as GFDL and UKMET. GFDL now shows it going right into Houston, which would mean $6/gallon gasoline right then and there. The other models carry it to Mexico, and I suppose it will cause a catastrophe there, but it is apparently not going to affect the oil patch.

How about the after storm (September 1)? It's GFS string for today is 9905, so the entire string is now:

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It's all over the place. Further, some of the runs show two storms, with the second one going fish in the Atlantic. We will have to wait and see what happens to it.

The storms in Richmond were fantastic. As far as I am concerned, it was the second worst storm we have had. One-third of the Richmond area lost power, and many trees were down. Virginia Power can't restore everyone to power until tomorrow night. This storm was worse than Fran. It was worse than Floyd. It was worse than Ernesto and the storm before that. It even piled more rain than Isabel then, with 5.86 inches (a new record) as opposed to 3.4 inches with Isabel. Isabel was more severe because of its higher winds. It was about the same as Gaston, but this storm caused a lot of power outages, whereas Gaston created a lot of flooding. So not all severe storms are hurricanes.