Storms and Floods

Tropical Storms

In the Atlantic Ocean:

Tropical Depression Eight - the latest minor blip on the almost inconsequential Atlantic hurricane season of 2013, formed at 2 pm EDT Friday just offshore of Tampico, Mexico. The depression made landfall less than three hours later, and had top winds estimated at 35 mph. The depression has already dissipated, but brought heavy rains that were expected to accumulate to 3 - 5" along its path. Tampico, Mexico recorded 2.60" of rain from the storm.

The remnants of Gabrielle are generating heavy thunderstorms a few hundred miles north of Puerto Rico and the Eastern Dominican Republic. High wind shear of 20 - 25 knots is inhibiting development, and wind shear is expected to stay high for the next five days. NHC put ex-Gabrielle's 2-day odds of development at 20% and 5-day odds at 40% in their 8 am EDT Saturday Tropical Weather Outlook. The disturbance is headed to the north at 10 - 15 mph, and is expected to turn to the northeast and pass several hundred miles east of Bermuda on Tuesday.

In the Eastern Pacific:

Post-Tropical cyclone Lorena is located approximately 35 mi (60 km) SSE of Cabo San Lazaro, Mexico. The last advisory has been issued on this system.

NewsBytes:

Landslides near Mulghat of Dhankuta, Nepal have buried some thirteen houses. No reports of injuries.

Nearly 300 houses with over 900 inhabitants have been inundated in a suburb of the Far Eastern Russian city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur after a nearby dam was destroyed in rising floods. Up to 16,000 people have already been evacuated and 98,800 people have been affected by the ongoing flooding of the Amur River.