Brazoria county leaders closed Surfside Beach ahead of the arrival of Tropical Storm Hanna down the Texas coast. So we got to go home,” said Nizar Bechnati, who was visiting the beach. We had to get out of here,” said Abeni Ojo, who was also visiting the beach. It was much of the same at Jamaica Beach, where flags whipped in the wind and waves crashed along the shoreline. While Hanna’s target appears to be elsewhere, for now, the storm is also a reminder of how busy the hurricane season can be.

MIAMI Tropical Storm Hanna is nearly hurricane strength as the system moves toward the Texas coast, and is expected to bring heavy rain, storm surge and possible tornadoes, all while another tropical storm approaches the Caribbean. A storm surge warning in effect from Baffin Bay to Sargent was extended south of the bay to Port Mansfield, Texas. A hurricane warning remained in effect for Port Mansfield to Mesquite Bay, and a tropical storm warning was still in effect from Barra el Mezquital, Mexico, to Port Mansfield, Texas, and from Mesquite Bay to High Island, Texas. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Gonzalo was still on track to move across the southern Windward Islands on Saturday afternoon or evening. A tropical storm warning remained for St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Tobago and Grenada and its dependencies.

Aqua Satellite Picture shows strong thunderstorm tops (in red) building around what is now Tropical Storm Hanna courtesy NOAASo, weather satellites are not all about just pretty TV pictures....they are huge forecasting tools. More and more satellites are going into space for various reasons (your television entertainment being the least of them!) All well and good until youre trying to take a fabulous picture of Comet NEOWISE and then look what can happen:An image of Comet NEOWISE marred by Starlink satellites. Space X satellites ruin the perfect comet photo! I had no idea, but SpaceX has already launched 540 satellites to bring high-speed Internet to the world and thats just the beginning.

HOUSTON Officials in South Texas, which has been hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic in recent weeks, said theyre also prepared to handle any challenges from Tropical Storm Hanna, which was headed their way and expected to make landfall this weekend. Areas of South Texas could see anywhere from 3 to 8 inches of rain, with some parts possibly seeing up to 12 inches. We could be dealing with significant flash flooding across much of deep South Texas, Birchfield said. South Texas officials' plans for any possible rescues, shelters and monitoring of the storm will have the pandemic in mind. Greg Abbott has announced that various resources to respond to the tropical storm are on standby across the state, including search-and-rescue teams and aircraft.