And good morning.
Thank you for staying with us this morning on Fox
Weather.
First, I'm meteorologist Berta Merwin, live in New York City
at FOX Weather headquarters.
While Craig Herrera has gone through the brunt of Alberto
and Craig, a little bit of a sunshine.
I mean, we're going to still feel impacts today for
sure, but nice to see a break in the cloud
deck.
Good morning, Craig, good morning, my friend.
Good morning to all of you.
We are coming to you off the cell phone.
We had some problems with our camera.
No surprise, right?
We expect these kinds of delays.
I'm going to step out of the way, but I'm
going to get you see the scene behind me and
maybe I'm out of some of the winds, so you
might be able to hear me a little bit better.
The surf is still rough.
The sun is up right now and we had some
intense rainfall overnight last night.
The winds were Halloween all night long.
Right now, the surf is still up.
You've been talking about the chance for maybe still some
gusty winds at times, even some heavy rain.
Most of the heavy rain is starting to move out
of here at this point, which is good news for
us.
But the surf is way up.
And now that we're coming in on portions of high
tide, I'll tell you what, the waves are coming right
up to the sea wall.
The sea wall's probably three or four feet high, so
we won't get over onto the walkway here.
But it's a different story from 24 hours to go.
We're now we're dealing with some sunshine, some bouts of
rain at times, but the wind has been persistent and
that is bringing a lot of the waves up along
the coastline here.
So as we continue to watch, we've been hearing about
some reports of flooding even we're on North Padre Island.
On South Padre Island, there was some reports of some
flooding at one of the RV parks there, 3 feet
of inundation.
I think that's going to be part of the scene
as we continue to go through the morning back, as
we continue to see more in the way of a
little bit of energy from this as well.
So we'll send it back to you from Padre Island.
I know it's a little crazy out here, but kind
of special and rated top.
Craig, thanks so much for the update.
You know, it's always a struggle when you're in a
storm.
Things happen.
But you know, at least we have the power of
a cell phone to at least get our eyes on
the situation.
And as we go throughout today, folks, we're going to
still see that impact of high water.
As Craig was just saying, the surf coming all the
way up to the seawall this morning on Padre Island,
the coastal flooding impact from this is still going to
be a big part of our day for Texans.
This is a look at the fresh update.
So this just came to us from the National Hurricane
Center.
The winds with Alberto are down to 45 mph.
The pressure actually increasing.
That is showing that the system is starting to weaken.
And that happens as storms make landfall very often.
This is a weak tropical storm.
It's making landfall this morning in North Mexico and all
of those impacts that we have been feeling will slowly
and surely start to resolve themselves for the state of
Texas.
But so impressive.
I mean, it's 1000 miles from where landfall is to
Galveston.
And, and that's pretty much the northern periphery of where
we've seen some more impressive storm surge, about two to
three feet of water for some residents on Galveston Island
yesterday.
Now as we take a look at the conditions today,
as I said, we're still going to battle that impact
from coastal flooding.
The rain impact is going to be a little easier
to take on.
You saw with Craig there on Padre Island this morning,
breaks of sunshine and that's going to be felt for
many folks across the Texas coastline.
But when you're under these bands, that's when you get
back into the bad stuff that the wind, the rain
and and also the threat of tornadoes.
So we have a rain band right now that is
South, of course, Corpus Christi, South of where Craig is
located.
Craig, it's just about here on the map and and
when you're underneath these bands, that's when you need to
be on top of it.
So that's the difference between today and yesterday.
Today you get to take a little bit of a
breath of relief and then when the bands move in,
you need to make sure that you are prepared.