The Latest on Alex...

The Hurricane Center has just released their 4pm update...they are shifting Alex to the south of where they were this morning, putting its landfall about 60 miles to the south of Brownsville. That would lower our rainfall chances, but since we will be in the right hand quadrant as it moves inland, it should give us some decent rainfall. There are still some models taking it to the north of that track...we shall see.

Meanwhile, the rare summer cool front is just to the NW of San Antonio, on a San Angelo to Abilene line. Along and to the south of the front isolated storms are forming this afternoon, but as of now, none have wound up in my backyard...just dry and hot in Helotes. Between the dying front and tropical storm Alex, I still think our chances for several inches of rain this week look good.

One of my favorite sites for tracking hurricanes is Stormpulse. Nice graphics!