

“If you live on the coast anywhere in Texas, obviously know if you’re in an evacuation zone and then once you find out if you are, have a plan,” he said. Lanza said there are steps everyone can take to prepare for the season, in the coastal region and beyond. And basically, we want to give the same idea of just being real about the weather and being straightforward and not (over hype) the weather.” “So if you live in Brownsville or Corpus Christi or Beaumont, you can check us out for information on hurricane season. So New England, Atlantic Canada, the Caribbean and parts of South Texas,” he said. “We are going to be focusing on hurricanes not just for Texas, but for the entire Atlantic Basin. Lanza said his team recently launched a new site, The Eyewall, to help people throughout the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico regions understand weather patterns that affect them. But I think the last couple of years where we’ve had a large storm in the Gulf almost every year, you know, it kind of is a little bit of a of a wake up call for a lot of people to realize that we live in a place that’s going to be dealing with this for a while.” So you’re not going to see that tomorrow necessarily. “When you’re talking climate change, you’re looking 50 years out in the future. There’s a lot of research that’s pointing to the Gulf becoming warmer, more hospitable to hurricanes,” he said. “I’ve looked recently at a lot of the research that’s come out on what climate change evolution is going to mean for Gulf of Mexico storms. Lanza said over time trends show climate change making hurricane seasons more intense, but it is hard to point to global warming as the primary factor in the seasonal forecast. “So we can have this battle setting up between the unfavorable El Niño and the favorable warm water.” But the bad news is that the Atlantic Ocean/Caribbean/Gulf of Mexico water temperatures are all extremely warm and that helps hurricanes,” Lanza said.

The reality is that we have an El Niño developing in the Pacific that usually works against hurricanes. “That seems to be the consensus among everybody.

Matt Lanza, a forecast meteorologist and managing editor of Space City Weather in Houston, said this year is projected to be an average season. 30 in the Atlantic Basin, which includes the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. In May 1916, yet another Murdoch’s built of wood opened beachside at Tremont and Seawall Boulevard.It runs from June 1 to Nov. Earlier Murdoch bathhouses, also made of wood, had fallen in the in the 1900 storm and a small hurricane in 1909. The Murdoch’s lost in the 1915 Storm was the third bathhouse of its name. Amendment supporters claimed that the debris destroyed the Crab Pavilion, a popular Seawall attraction which dated to 1905. Waves pounded Murdoch’s and Breakers bathhouses to kindling and carried their timbers over the Seawall. The city had experienced a strong Category 4 hurricane in August 1915. The Bathhouse Charter Amendment proposed “that no structures of floating materials shall be constructed or maintained outside of the seawall or extension thereof.” “Floating materials” was an oblique term for “wood.”Īmendment backers aimed to prohibit the construction of future wood bathhouses along Galveston’s beach.
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On January 18, 1916, Galveston voters rejected Charter Amendment “O,” one of a series of fifteen local charter amendments, by a margin of 1,762 voters to 1,238. By Casey Edward Greene, Rosenberg Scholar Crystal Palace Bathhouse postcard, Seawall Specialty Co., Houston and Galveston, Texas.
