Hurricane Harbor: Hurricane Beryl Again. Powerful Punching OnShore on Her LAST Landfall ... From Africa in June to Texas in July

Hurricane Beryl Again.

Knew it would wrap up, helps to have the friction of land close for hurricanes like this as if they literally get high on the compelling scent of a landfall about to happen. Weather has a scent, an aroma like good Texas Brisket BBQ or the particular scent of petrichor of rain about to fall. As Jim Cantore talks about the DNA from an old hurricane sometimes embedded in a new system, there is a DNA in a Hurricane like Beryl that rises to the surface as it approaches land. Tightens up, pulls it together and pounds anything in it's path. Chasers beware, this is not Yo Momma's Category 1 Hurricane.

I love this presentation from Zoom Earth that allows you to see well against a satellite image where Beryl came from ...in fact furthur away in Africa as a wave that was not deterred by the Saharan Dust, staying low keeping it's head down until it made it as a Category 5 pummeling the Islands. You've seen the damage, I am not hyping or exaggerating. Beryl left a path of wreckage we usually see in September.

Beryl had it's own rule book from the start and now a new part of it's journey begins as it moves inland bring heavy, torrential rain to some areas that have prayed for rain ...but this may have been way more than they prayed for but Beryl will deliver in one way or the other.

Half asleep still sipping Iced Nespresso after literally falling asleep watching it trying, never giving up, and attaining hurricane status again. Big credit to the chasers that chased believing, knowing this would deliver when many naysayers whined about what it once was...

A 80 MPH Hurricane on July 8th in Texas is a big deal, just on it's own.

Note there aren't a whole line of Conga dancing tropical waves behind it. Easy to say, just Beryl barreling though the tropics all the way to Texas.

Tornadoes are wild, they are amazing and yet they are a flash of fire like wind and then gone, moved on. Hurricanes are long distance drama, some moving fast like Beryl did most of it's life and others moving slowly, crawling along raking a beach and tearing apart the scenery and the lay of the land. Many small islands along the coast and inlets have been created by a slow moving, huge hurricane. Both wild weather, both different, both deadly. Twisters are like "slam bam thank you ma'am" and Hurricanes are like hours are tantric sex with an incredible soundtrack playing the whole time. Each have their place in our lives...

And, yes the homes in that part of Texas are built high up on stilts for a reason. And, seawalls in this part of Texas are built strong and high as there is a history of storm surge covering Galveston and smaller, lesser known places along the beautiful, long coast of Texas.

That's it. I just wanted to write some to really try and describe how different and amazing a meteorological enigma Beryl was and is in that it's way too early to see this happen. Yet, we have calendars that are neatly marked with dates such as June 1st is the beginning of the Hurricane Season and yet we have had tropical systems in April and May. Every storm has it's day and today is Beryl's day for it's last landfall and the beginning of it's inland journey. I'm guessing it'll look good on radar for a long while still.