EATHER FIVE DAY FORECAST FOR BROWNSVILLE ALMANAC VALLEY MEXICO ACCUWEATHER.COM UV INDEX SUN AND MOON TIDES WORLD CITIES YESTERDAY NATIONAL CITIES NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY NATIONAL SUMMARY WEST TEXAS SOUTH TEXAS NORTH TEXAS EAST TEXAS TEXAS CITIES YESTERDAY TEXAS Brownsville through 7 p.m. yesterday Higher index numbers indicate greater eye and skin exposure to ultraviolet rays. 0-2, Low; 3-5, Moderate; 6-7, High; 8-10, Very High; Extreme LastNewFirstFull Sep 8Sep 15Sep 22Sep 29 South Padre Island Day Time High Time Low City Hi Lo WCity Hi Lo City Hi Lo WCity Hi Lo City Hi Lo Hi Lo WCity Hi Lo Hi Lo WCity Hi Lo Hi Lo WCity Hi Lo Hi Lo Yesterday Tuesday Yesterday Tuesday Yesterday Tuesday Yesterday Tuesday TODAYTONIGHTWEDNESDAYTHURSDAYFRIDAYSATURDAY 98 78 94 78 94 77 97 79 95 76 Mostly sunny and breezy Breezy this evening; otherwise, clear Mostly sunnyMostly sunnyMostly sunnyMostly sunny Shown is weather. Temperatures are highs and lows. Mostly sunny today; hot in central parts.
Mainly clear tonight. Partly sunny and hot tomorrow. Thursday: a shower or thunderstorm possible at the coast. Friday: mostly sunny. Mostly sunny and hot today.
Mainly clear tonight. Partly sunny and hot tomorrow. Thursday: partly sunny. Friday: partly sunny and hot. Mostly sunny today; hot toward San Antonio and Laredo.
Clear tonight. Mostly sunny tomorrow, Thursday and Friday; hot toward San Antonio and Laredo. Abundant sunshine today; very warm in the panhandle and near the Big Bend. Clear tonight. Mostly sunny and hot tomorrow, but some clouds in the panhandle.
The combination of tropical moisture and the degenerating system Isaac will bring drenching downpours and locally gusty thunderstorms today from New England to the Deep South. Showers and storms will stretch from the central Plains to the central Great Lakes and will also dot the Southwest. The West Coast and Northwest will be generally dry. Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice -10s-0s0s10s20s30s40s50s60s70s80s90s100s 110s Cold Warm Stationary Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Forecast temperatures are for selected cities. Shown is weather. Temperatures are highs and lows. Forecasts and graphics provided by AccuWeather, Inc. Rio Grande City McAllen Weslaco Brownsville Harlingen Tijuana Puerto Penasco Hermosillo Chihuahua Ciudad Sabinas La Paz Cabo San Lucas Mazatlan Guadalajara San Luis Potosi Mexico City Monterrey El Paso Tampico Veracruz Acapulco Oaxaca Villahermosa Brownsville McAllen Laredo Corpus Christi San Antonio Houston Austin Del RIo Waco Abilene Odessa Alpine Lajitas Lubbock Wichita Falls Dallas Fort Worth Amarillo Temperature Precipitation High 95 Low 78 Normal high 93 Normal low 75 24 hrs.
ending 7 p.m. yest. 0.00” Month to date 0.16” Year to date 16.52” 10 a.m. 5 1 p.m. 10 4 p.m.
5 Albuquerque 94 69 pc 93 68 Anchorage 59 50 57 50 Atlanta 85 74 86 74 Atlantic City 79 71 78 73 Baltimore 84 75 83 71 Billings 85 57 78 48 Birmingham 84 70 88 75 Bismarck 87 43 pc 84 49 Boston 72 59 pc 76 69 sh Buffalo 90 63 pc 80 67 Charleston, SC 90 75 88 73 Charleston, WV 89 73 83 69 Cheyenne 84 55 pc 86 48 pc Chicago 88 71 pc 89 68 pc Cincinnati 82 70 88 68 Cleveland 90 68 pc 81 69 Columbia, SC 90 75 88 73 Columbus, OH 82 71 83 67 Denver 90 61 pc 90 54 pc Des Moines 86 70 94 69 Detroit 89 66 85 68 Duluth 87 63 pc 82 58 Fairbanks 63 46 sh 62 44 Fargo 88 48 84 53 pc Greensboro, NC 82 70 86 70 Helena 80 43 76 43 Honolulu 87 74 88 75 sh Indianapolis 82 71 88 69 pc Jackson, MS 93 78 pc 94 76 pc Jacksonville 92 73 pc 90 70 Juneau 54 49 59 46 Kansas City 94 67 94 71 Las Vegas 102 75 pc 98 81 pc Little Rock 99 75 97 76 pc Los Angeles 85 63 85 65 pc Louisville 82 74 88 72 pc Memphis 95 74 pc 94 76 pc Miami 88 79 pc 89 75 pc Milwaukee 83 67 82 69 pc Minneapolis 92 73 pc 88 67 Nashville 79 73 86 72 New Orleans 92 78 pc 90 76 New York City 79 71 78 72 Oklahoma City 104 79 105 74 Omaha 86 71 94 68 Philadelphia 78 73 83 72 Phoenix 104 88 pc 100 85 Pittsburgh 87 69 80 68 Portland, ME 72 57 pc 74 65 sh Portland, OR 79 55 pc 85 57 Providence 77 57 pc 76 71 sh Rapid City 92 49 86 49 pc Reno 92 54 90 58 Sacramento 95 55 92 56 St. Louis 88 74 pc 90 74 pc Salt Lake City 88 60 pc 86 62 pc San Francisco 74 52 69 53 pc Santa Fe 90 63 90 59 Seattle 73 55 pc 78 55 Shreveport 98 77 pc 100 75 Sioux Falls 92 63 pc 90 60 Spokane 78 50 pc 78 50 Syracuse 83 59 80 67 Tampa 89 75 pc 91 76 Topeka 100 69 96 70 Tucson 97 73 pc 93 75 Washington, DC 85 75 82 74 Wichita 106 73 100 73 pc Athens 88 72 Beijing 79 61 Berlin 73 54 Bermuda 84 77 pc Bogota 65 48 Buenos Aires 61 41 Cairo 94 73 Calgary 72 48 sh Dhahran 109 81 Dublin 72 54 pc Frankfurt 77 52 Geneva 70 55 Havana 87 72 Helsinki 66 54 sh Hong Kong 91 82 sh Istanbul 81 70 pc Jerusalem 85 66 Johannesburg 73 46 Kiev 79 54 Lisbon 90 70 London 76 59 Madrid 82 57 Mexico City 81 55 Montreal 82 55 pc Moscow 66 50 pc Nassau 88 77 New Delhi 92 80 Paris 72 58 pc Rio de Janeiro 78 67 Rome 77 63 sh Seoul 82 70 pc Singapore 88 81 pc Stockholm 70 54 pc Sydney 67 43 Tokyo 86 77 pc Toronto 82 61 Vancouver 67 54 pc Warsaw 75 59 pc Today 4:23 a.m. 1.3 ft. 12:23 a.m. 1.1 ft.
8:03 p.m. 1.5 ft. 11:52 a.m. 0.4 ft. Wed.
4:03 a.m. 1.3 ft. 1:11 a.m. 1.2 ft. 9:47 p.m.
1.5 ft. 12:35 p.m. 0.4 ft. Abilene 101 77 Alice 103 75 pc Amarillo 98 71 Austin 99 73 Beaumont 92 75 pc Brownsville 95 78 pc College Station 99 76 pc Corpus Christi 101 76 pc Dallas 101 78 Del Rio 103 80 pc El Paso 99 74 pc Fort Worth 100 77 Galveston 90 83 pc Harlingen 100 73 pc Houston 96 77 pc Kingsville 100 76 pc Laredo 104 78 pc Longview 97 77 Lubbock 95 71 Marfa 88 68 pc McAllen 102 79 pc Odessa 98 71 San Angelo 102 76 San Antonio 99 76 pc Texarkana 100 77 Victoria 99 73 pc Waco 101 77 Wichita Falls 103 78 Weather (w): s- sunny, pc- partly cloudy, c- cloudy, sh- showers, t- thunderstorms, r- rain, sf- snow sn- snow, i- ice. Sunrise today 7:11 a.m.
Sunset today 7:46 p.m. Moonrise today 10:12 p.m. Moonset today 10:48 a.m. BBRRYYAANN HHAALLEE Sunny and hot.Southeast winds index of 108. If you have any weather questions please contact the Team 4 Weather Lab at: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012 BY CAIN BURDEAU THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS Mitt Romney wasted no time after accepting the GOP presidential nomination in heading to Louisiana to see the damage from Hurricane Isaac, changing his schedule on the fly to get there the very next day.
President Barack Obama also tweaked his travel plans to make sure he gets there Monday, ahead of his own nominating convention. This for a Category 1 storm that killed seven and swamped low-lying areas of Louisiana and dumped more than a foot of rain on its way north a disaster, to be sure, but one that will never rival the biggest to hit the Gulf Coast. In a region with a storied culture and a history of human suffering, natural and manmade catastrophes, and struggles with government ineptitude and indifference, just another turn in front of the cameras as the perfect political backdrop. Call it the Katrina effect: Presidents, and would-be presidents, afford to get panned like George W. Bush did in the days after Hurricane Katrina crippled New Orleans and the Mississippi and Alabama coasts in 2005, killing more than 1,800.
decision to observe flooding of New Orleans first in a flyover in Air Force One instead of putting his feet on the ground gave critics an opening to argue that he was indifferent to the suffering below. He later set the standard for what not to do in a disaster when he infamously patted the back of former Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Michael Brown, telling him he had done a of a job, as tens of thousands languished at New convention center. dare say, before Katrina no way that you would have the president and Romney here within days of one another in a storm of this relatively small magnitude not to diminish the impact of it said Robert Mann, the director of the Reilly Center for Media Public Affairs at Louisiana State University. For many of the people who call the Gulf Coast home, it matter if a storm that submerges the streets, or a busted oil well spewing millions of gallon of crude: the political posturing make them feel like relief is coming any faster. just want our lights said Eddie Cooley, a 56-year-old chemical warehouse worker drenched in sweat as he worked on his engine in the Lower 9th Ward, the New Orleans neighborhood flooded to rooftops during Katrina.
Over the weekend, parts of the neighborhood remained without electricity, days after Isaac passed. care who gets elected and who Cooley said. just want Presidents have been coming to the Deep South for decades to score political points. Herbert Hoover rode his way to the White House following his heroics in response to the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927. In the aftermath of Hurricane Betsy in 1965, U.S.
Sen. Russell Long urged President Lyndon Johnson to journey south, telling him that if he got down to New Orleans the end of the day, never lose another election in this Mann said. Johnson went to New Orleans with Cabinet members to with my own eyes what the unhappy alliance of wind and water have done to this land and to its good He met with hurricane victims, ordered water to be delivered to shelters and pledged the federal full resources to help New Orleans get back on its feet. As it turned out, Johnson decided not to run for re-election in 1968. Still, never stop thinking about politics.
Never stop thinking about taking advantage of any said Mann, who served as spokesman to then-Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco during Katrina. For national politicians, a crisis like those on the coast presents an opportunity to demonstrate leadership. Or to bring disaster on themselves if they handle it right. BY CAIN BURDEAU THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW ORLEANS Tens of thousands of customers remained in the dark Monday in Louisiana and Mississippi, days after Isaac inundated the Gulf Coast with a deluge that still has some low- lying areas under water.
Most of those were in Louisiana, where utilities reported more than 100,000 people without power as of Monday morning. Thousands also were without power in Mississippi and Arkansas. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is out trying to get a handle on losses. Residents can apply for grants to get help with home repairs and temporary housing, among other expenses. President Barack Obama was to visit Louisiana on Monday, a day ahead of the Democratic National Convention.
He will meet with local officials, tour storm damage, and view response and recovery efforts before addressing reporters at Saint John the Baptist Parish, the White House said. Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited the state Friday. Homeland Security Secretary, Janet Napolitano, visited Bay St. Louis, and Slidell, on Sunday. are part of a team to make sure Hurricane Isaac is put to rest as soon as we can for all those Napolitano said.
the meantime, please know all of us are thinking about those in Louisiana who are without their homes or without their At least seven people were killed in the storm in the U.S. five in Louisiana and two in Mississippi. More than 2,800 people were registered at various state, local and Red Cross shelters in Louisiana, down from around 4,000 earlier. State officials were uncertain how many people would eventually need longer- term temporary housing. Kevin Davis, head of the emergency office, said that housing would likely include hotels at first, then rental homes as close as possible to their damaged property.
Progress was evident in many places, though lingering flooding remained a problem in low-lying areas. Crews in the town of Lafitte intentionally breached a levee Sunday night in an effort to help flooding there subside, Jefferson Parish Councilman Chris Roberts told The Times-Picayune. Much of Plaquemines Parish, a vulnerable finger of land that juts into the Gulf of Mexico, remained under as much as 5 feet of water, Parish President Billy Nungesser said. The Category 1 hurricane walloped the parish, and for many, the damage was worse than that from Katrina in 2005. never seen water come up this quick this he said.
Nungesser said there were reports that cattle in the largely rural parish took refuge on porches. In one instance, cattle broke through a window and lumbered onto furniture to stay above water. Entergy, which provides power to most of the people who lost it, was under fire over the weekend from local government officials for what they said was a slow pace of restoration. Jefferson Parish President John Young said widespread outages were hampering recovery from the storm and he would ask the state Public Service Commission to investigate. Thousands still waiting for power after Isaac Another disaster brings candidates to Gulf Coast GERALD HERBERT THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Republican presidential candidate Mitt Louisiana Gov.Bobby greet residents by Isaac in Barack Obama tweaked his travel plans to head to Louisiana on Monday to see the damage from Hurricane Isaac ahead of his own nominating convention..
