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Currently in Austin — October 23, 2023: A warm week ahead
Plus, details on two hurricane landfalls over the weekend.
A Hebert & Eric Holthaus
October 22, 2023
The weather, currently.
A warm Monday, chance of rain
A hot weekend transitions to a warm week, moderating to a Monday high near 85. Energy from dissipating Tropical Storm Norma brings a 40% chance of showers and thunderstorms. Rain chances drop to 20% Monday night after 1am, with a mostly cloudy sky and a low around 70.
I’ve recently seen a few monarchs meandering through the Turk’s cap in my neighborhood as they make their bi-annual migratory journey across Texas. With prime planting season upon us, the butterflies remind us that native plants support pollinators and biodiversity while thriving in an ever-warming Texas.
-Anne Hebert
What you need to know, currently.
Over the weekend two hurricanes make landfall — one in the Pacific, and one in the Atlantic.
Hurricane Tammy has been a rare late-October hurricane-strength storm in the tropical Atlantic, and meandered its way parallel to the Eastern Caribbean chain of islands before making landfall in Barbuda on Sunday. The storm caused intense flash flooding in Guadeloupe as well. Forecasts show that Tammy will continue meandering northwestward this week, but it’s still too early to say whether it will pose a threat to Bermuda or the US mainland.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Norma lashed the southern tip of Baja California before making a second landfall on the Mexico mainland over the weekend. It’s the fifth tropical cyclone to make landfall on Mexico’s Pacific Coast this year.
#Topolobampo Fuertes vientos e intensa lluvia se registra en el puerto de Topolobampo ante la presencia de #Norma. Extremar precauciones.
— Alfredo Padilla MX (@Alfredopadiilla)
9:50 PM • Oct 22, 2023
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