A turn...

There's always a turn.  In the road.  Where life takes you.  And, the path of a storm.

Patricia is now a tropical depression, after slamming into the west coast of Mexico as the strongest hurricane on record for the Western Hemisphere.  The mountains in Mexico took the biggest part of the wind out of the storm, but the US (and Texas, in particular) is going to see a LOT of rain from this storm.

Not what we need - a Gulf moisture system has already dumped up to 18" of rain in parts of Texas (mostly north of us).  The path that Patricia was predicted to take put it coming into Texas between Falcon Lake and Laredo, west and north of us.  Movement going northeast.

Yep, a turn.  The middle of the storm is now predicted to come through the Rio Grande Valley, dumping copious amounts of rain along the way.  Wind is down to 35 mph, and way less than that here, currently.

I was up this morning, just before what would have been sunrise.  It wasn't a solid overcast - you could see the bands of the forward part of the storm.  That changed a half hour later, with rain and solid overcast.  The new predictions show the remnants of Patricia impacting our area later today and tomorrow.

Warnings for coastal flooding.  If this storm moves any further south, we are going to have issues with storm surge... combined with already higher than normal tides.  Here's what the radar looks like right now...

We are in the middle of that image.  And this is before the rains from Patricia.

I thought the brunt of this was going to be north of us.  Yep, a turn.

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Update at 5:30 pm...

Here it comes! The Gulf moisture that has been raining down on Texas is now being joined by the remnants of Hurricane Patricia. It has been soggy, but a reasonably dry, calm afternoon. Until now. Flash flood warnings, coastal flood warnings. Emergency warning on my phone just went off - that gets your attention. They just broke in during the national news with more local warnings: stay off the roads - don't drive into flooded areas. Over 6" of rain in some local areas just this afternoon. Wind has kicked up from the north. This is the heaviest rain I've seen since we've lived here. Ugly.

A radar update...

The black arrow is pointing at us.  Those green "cones" show the direction of movement of the various cells.  Apparently, we are some kind of magnet for those storm cells?!?