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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

7 years

Astros win 5-1 tonight. Because, Harvey.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

I remember when the Cajun Navy came roaring into Texas amidst the torrents of Harvey. I sure hope Texas steps up for them tomorrow.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 months

Just as ERCOT faced a reckoning after the great freeze, our power distributors must face a post-Beryl reckoning. The status quo is unacceptable. This is unsustainable for a city that bills itself as the energy capital of the world.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

JJ Watt is leaving and Houston freezes over. Hmm.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

7 years

We knew. After Harvey dropped 51 inches, it had to end like this. After the darkest night, the sun always comes out.

Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

7 years

Astros win 5-1 tonight. Because, Harvey.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Here's some real talk. If a 145-mph Laura were to make landfall in Freeport or San Luis pass, Houston as we know it would be pretty much gone. Surge inundating Galveston Bay, energy assets. Wind damage across the entire city. Power outages for weeks to months. We are unprepared.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

It's all apparently a misunderstanding. When the Texans announced they were shedding JJ Watt's contract, ERCOT heard that "Texans need to shed watts."

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

For the "it's not turning" crowd ... it has turned. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

It is the official policy of Space City Weather that @Simone_Biles is awesome. Houston is lucky to have her.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

I would gladly lose 100 followers if it meant that just one person—maybe that's you, kind human reading this?—who was on the fence got vaccinated today.

Sandi Bailey

@SandiBa55610483

3 years

@SpaceCityWX Damn it…I really loved your weather forecast and no nonsense reporting …but you lost a follower over this post…seriously stick to weather and what you know best …not politics

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

2 years

Officially, Houston's high temperature hit 105° today. This ties the city's all-time record for a July high temperature. Unofficially, this weather absolutely sucks.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Wanted to thank the @astros for mentioning our site during Monday’s game. We’re big fans. How big? Our pinned tweet called the Game 7 win and final score in 2017 hours before the game started. Because 51 inches. Because Harvey.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

We've been talking about a front coming into Houston next week for a few days, but unfortunately the latest modeling data shows the front stalling before ... just kidding. It's coming y'all.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

Please clap.

NWS Houston

@NWSHouston

3 years

The city of Houston has gone 365 days with temperatures below 100 degrees. The last time the temperature reached 100 degrees was on August 29 2020 (101 degrees). #houwx

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

This has been a sobering warning shot, Houston. Perhaps we should heed it? • Build the Ike Dike, or the like • Dramatically improve flood control • Construct for high winds

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Texas to-do list for weather disasters: • Winterize electricity generating capacity • Support flood mitigation efforts • Build a coastal spine for storm surge • Improve coastal wind building codes

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

Oh, hello!

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

PLEASE PLAN TO STAY HOME ON MONDAY IN HOUSTON. EMPLOYERS, PLEASE TAKE THIS THREAT SERIOUSLY. We are not 100 percent confident that Houston roadways will be an ice rink, but the threat is very, very real.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

What happens in Alaska ... should stay in Alaska.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

1 year

I'm going to need everyone who complains about winter in Houston to step outside for the next few hours. Thank you for your cooperation.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

While this is appreciated, and no doubt the product of very hard work, what happened over the last 100 hours must never be repeated. The cost of this preventable catastrophe in lives, burst pipes, and human misery has been enormous.

ERCOT

@ERCOT_ISO

4 years

ERCOT will end emergency conditions today:

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Whoah. Just heard the South Texas Nuclear Plant is down. Another huge loss to state’s generating capacity. Explains why the number of outages are increasing this evening.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Named after the base unit of temperature, folks. Not sure how Matt slipped that one past mom, but I love it! Congratulations.

Matt Lanza 🤌🏼

@mattlanza

4 years

Tropical Storm Beta has brought some wind, some rain, some coastal flooding, and Theodore Kelvin Lanza who arrived a little earlier than we had expected on Sunday night! Mama and baby are doing great. Thanks to all for well wishes and messages.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

You're right. Not good at all. Now please work in a bipartisan way with state and local officials to ensure this does not happen again. It's pure misery for millions of your constituents.

Ted Cruz

@tedcruz

4 years

I got no defense. 🤷🏻‍♂️ A blizzard strikes Texas & our state shuts down. Not good. Stay safe!

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

How about no.

Houston Chronicle

@HoustonChron

4 years

Former Texas governor Rick Perry suggests that going days without power is a sacrifice Texans should be willing to make if it means keeping federal regulators out of the state’s power grid.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

We’re beyond sick of hurricane season, too.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

2 years

Five years ago, tonight, was the Saturday night when all hell broke loose over Houston during Hurricane Harvey. If you were here, you probably remember with crystal clarity where you were, what you were doing, and the sound of that damn, damn, incessant rainfall.

🌻🌵 Porchlandrea

@Porchlandrea

2 years

@SpaceCityWX This just came up in my Facebook 'memories' from this day in 2017 — crazy times!

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

First shower at home in ... 12 days. Feels good to have hot water back.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

For those still wondering whether Beta is another Hurricane Harvey, let’s compare radar snapshots. Not saying Beta doesn’t have potential, but let’s be real.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

Build parks. With large drainage ponds. Thanks.

Robert Downen

@RobertDownen_

3 years

I would advocate we build statutes in their honor, but pretty sure @SpaceCityWX & @mattlanza would take issue with adding more concrete to Houston

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Fall is coming to Houston for REALZ by Thursday.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

2 years

After Friday, Houston may not see high temperatures above the 60s for at least a week.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

Nothing was done during the legislative session about any of the state’s underlying power outage issues.

ERCOT

@ERCOT_ISO

3 years

Tight grid conditions expected due to high number of forced generation outages, grid operator requests energy conservation:

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Hurricanes are fascinating and terrifying. But mostly, terrifying.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 months

You forgot these words: “Whatever company officials and politicians say in the coming days, the harsh reality is that our transmission system failed the Beryl test. Badly.”

Houston deserves a much better electricity distribution system

In brief: Today’s post offers some thoughts about the need for a reckoning with power distribution in the greater Houston area, and greater resiliency given the conditions we regularly experi…

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CenterPoint Energy

@CenterPoint

3 months

Hurricane Beryl packed a punch. To help people better understand why this hurricane was so impactful, meteorologists and other experts have been weighing in.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

9 months

Good deals still available!

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Well, it feels pretty damn nice outside.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

Houston summers are so long you can almost forget what great weather feels like. It’s nice to remember.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

I just drank a couple of Shiners, so I hope that doesn't count as letting one's guard down. It has been a loooooong week.

Matt Lanza 🤌🏼

@mattlanza

4 years

@SpaceCityWX **That doesn't mean you should let your guard down!** We will still see impacts and some significant ones in our area There is always the risk that the track could shift back a bit closer to us, but we feel fairly confident that the *worst* will pass to our east.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

And in case you forgot, we're the "no hype" guys. Houston has been lucky. Harvey was absolutely worst case for flood storm, yes. But Ike was not close to worst case for storm surge. And we've not had a serious wind storm since 1961, and even then Carla was fairly distant.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

We've seen enough data to raise our flood scale warning to Stage 3. There's still plenty of uncertainty, but odds are increasing that we'll see some significant flooding in Houston on Tuesday and Wednesday. @mattlanza will have a full update in about an hour.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

2 years

Hell yeah Houston Astros! Love this team, and love this city. ⚾️♥️☀️

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

This is incredible. After publication of LIFTOFF, my agent sent a bottle of champagne via @Drizly . Was delivered locally via @Specs1962 . I guess someone in the store recognized my name from Space City Weather and added this note. Unbelievably kind!

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

So, yeah. Predicting the future is hard. At least the atmosphere is governed by physics.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

2 years

And so it begins…

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

Ida is about to make landfall in Louisiana. As a forecaster there is not much else to say. The storm is here, and it is a gut punch. Ida is a nightmare scenario for the state of Louisiana. We must stand ready to help them survive, recover, and rebuild.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

2 years

We can confidently predict a snowfall accumulation of 0.00 inches during the next seven days in Houston. You're welcome.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

Vaccines are safe, effective, and critical to ending this pandemic. This is an amazing offer if you haven't been vaccinated already. Please take advantage of it.

Lina Hidalgo

@LinaHidalgoTX

3 years

NEW: Starting today, anyone who gets their COVID-19 vaccine at a Harris County Public Health site will receive $100, no strings attached. If you’re unvaccinated, now is the time to step up. More at or 832-927-8787.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

We are deeply appreciative of all the volunteer poll workers in Texas—at early polling sites, drive-through locations, at myriad sites today, and handling mail-in ballots—for ensuring a safe and fair election. You're making democracy possible.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Enjoy your weekend, Houston. You've earned it.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

Tomorrow will be one of the top 10 weather days in Houston this year. Maybe top 5. Print tweet for a permission slip to play hooky.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Yes, the front is still coming Monday. Dewpoints are going to crash. Lows in the 50s seem increasingly likely for all but the coast. It's been 137 days since we've gone into the 50s.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

I'm now a little more than cautiously optimistic about our first real "fall front" arriving next week circa Wednesday. I'm still not confident enough to declare next Thursday Fall Day 2021, but we're trending that way.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

Hurricane Ike mad landfall today, 13 years ago, at 2am CT on Galveston Island. So yeah, it's that time of year.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

T-50 hours until the front.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

If you're panic buying for Tropical Storm Marco, Houston, you're doing it wrong. Most likely scenario now is moderate to minimal impacts. Laura, later next week, may be a different story. Emphasis on "may."

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

2 years

Houston's temperature as of this hour is 104°F. This smashes the previous record of 101° set during the torrid summer of 1998. Still a little bit of time to go higher.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

After Katrina, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers build a levee system to protect New Orleans. After Hurricane Ike in 2008, nothing has been built to protect Houston. There is yet time, and we should.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

All of the 18z model guidance for Laura has shifted eastward this evening. Most solutions are now just east of the Texas-Louisiana border. This is a positive trend for Houston, obviously, and there is a non-zero chance that Beaumont escapes the worst winds and surge from Laura.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Some late-night thoughts on Laura, and where we all were three years ago at this very hour.

Some late night thoughts about Laura, and hurricanes in general

I have come to the conclusion that hurricanes are fascinating and horrible. But mostly, horrible. Three years ago, at this very hour, those first, tremendous rain bands from Hurricane Harvey were p…

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

The GFS nailed Laura.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

2 years

Houston may see dewpoints in the upper 40s next week y'all, at least away from the coast. Are you ready for that?!?

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

Astros win tonight cold front coming tomorrow A triumphant fall

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

2 years

A robust cold front will sweep into Houston tonight. This will be an in-your-face front, which in addition to the potential for storms will also bring gusty winds up to 40 or 45 mph—presumably enough wind to terrify a New York Yankee.

Storms are possible tonight ahead of fine fall weather, but is the Halloween forecast frightful?

Good morning. A robust cold front will sweep into Houston tonight, bringing a line of showers and thunderstorms. This will be an in-your-face front, which in addition to the potential for storms wi…

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Space City Weather turns five years old tomorrow. We're celebrating with a cool front, and a cool announcement.

Space City Weather turns five—so here’s how we’re celebrating

It is difficult for me to believe, but Space City Weather turns five years old tomorrow. (Here’s our first post). I remember it well. I left the Houston Chronicle’s downtown office that…

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Water situation across parts of the Houston metro area are becoming as desperate as power. Some areas with low pressure, most with boil-water notices. Hard to do that if you have no power and an electric stove.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

If you're worried about a repeat of the 2021 Valentine's winter storm in Houston, time is running out. The next 10-14 days are safe, and then we really only need worry about things into the second half of February. At present, there are zero signs of extreme cold ahead.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

I also want to wish @mattlanza and his family the best tonight! The next update you get from him won't be on Beta, but rather on Bebe.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 months

Although we cannot be certain at this time, it increasingly looks as though Tropical Storm Beryl is on track to make landfall somewhere between Corpus Christi and Matagorda Bay on Monday. Here's what to expect in Houston:

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

2 years

Mosquito eggs laying dormant in Houston across the long, dry summer after checking the forecast ...

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

5 months

Well, that sucked.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

It’s here!

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

It’s been one week since the biggest weather event of the summer for Houston. I am speaking of the Harry Styles concert cancellation, of course.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

We’re going to miss you, dry air. Like, really.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

2 years

Texas has four seasons: • FLOOD • DROUGHT • FREEZE • That one Thursday in the Spring and Monday in the Fall when it's freaking perfect outside.

Evil MoPac

@EvilMopacATX

2 years

WHY CAN'T TEXAS WEATHER EVER BE CHILL?

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 months

There have been unexpected, and significant changes in the forecast for Tropical Storm Beryl over the last 24 hours. The implications for Houston early next week range from relatively mild to fairly impactful.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

Nicholas has become a hurricane, with 75-mph winds. Storm is located just 20 miles southeast of Matagorda.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Whoah. We're likely going to see north of 200,000 page views in just this hour. Despite this our server, nicknamed Garak, appears up to the task.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

2,5 weeks after a Harris County mask order went into effect, the region began to see a sustained decline in COVID-19 related hospitalizations. This is an easy forecast, y'all. Let's keep it going.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

2 years

It's possible—I'm not sure I'd go as far as probable, but it is quite possible—that Houston records its last 100-degree day of 2022 today or tomorrow. The rest of August looks quite reasonable, then we'll have to see about September.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

6 years

Houston snow forecast for the next 10 days.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

In its 10pm CT update to Hurricane Laura's forecast track, @NHC_Atlantic has Houston well outside the cone. This one has not yet been put to bed for the metro area, but we are now very likely to avoid serious, direct effects.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

What's so striking about this front is its sticking power. It's rare that the first real front of the season brings four nights of notably cooler and drier air.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Three years ago, today, Hurricane Harvey had made landfall. Some preliminary storms had moved through overnight. Then, beginning in the evening on the Saturday the 26th, all hell would break loose...

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

5 years

As of 8am Tuesday, Houston and Harris County have closed all bars and nightclubs for the next 15 days. Restaurants will be closed to dine-in customers. Message from community leaders: Do not go out of your home unless you have to. This is the right message.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

12 hours until the end of summer. It will still get hot. And we’ll have humidity of course. But not for weeks on end.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

As temperatures warm somewhat, we may see outages go down today as customers pull less power. But the problem will not be solved until generation from all sources knocked out by cold is brought back online. There has been zero public transparency from ERCOT on that situation.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

1 year

Anyone else want the Astros? ⚾️

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

1 year

One of the most sublime pleasures in life is a good, hard rain after a prolonged drought.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

Nicest day since April? And more to come Sunday. ☀️

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Please, for the safety of everyone, scream inside your heart.

Kimberly Wolf 🏴🏳️‍🌈🏴

@KimmieWolf

4 years

Anyone else reading the @SpaceCityWX update this morning & screaming internally?

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

5 years

The next time you’re mad at us about a weekend forecast, we’re going to throw Easter Weekend, 2019, back at you.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

6 years

By the way, today is the average date of Houston's first fall cold front. We invite you to enjoy your high of 95° everyone.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

3 years

Heads up: The next two weeks could be fairly spicy in the Gulf of Mexico. There will be lots of tropical moisture and some opportunistic low pressure systems. No one can really say more than that right now, but it's time to pay attention from Mexico to Florida.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Good story on power outages from the @TexasTribune . The main problem is that natural gas plants failed due to a lack of sufficient winterization preparation after the Arctic Outbreak of 2011.

Texas largely relies on natural gas for power. It wasn’t ready for th…

Texas largely relies on natural gas — especially during times of high demand — to power the state. Experts say natural gas infrastructure, from pumping it out of the ground to the plants in city cent…

www.texastribune.org

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

4 years

Just wanted to say a quick word of thanks to @EKillingerNRG and @reliantenergy for supporting Space City Weather for the last four years. They're a great partner that allows us to provide everything we do for free, to all.

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Eric Berger

@SpaceCityWX

7 years

Exhausted. Going to bed. Tonight was ... and still is ... horrible. Remember that people matter much more than property. God bless you all.

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@SpaceCityWX