👀 I am so fascinated by this man who fell asleep in the parking lot across from a bar in Katy .... and then said he woke up when a TORNADO blew through. houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-w…

Now that one-minute ASOS station data is available for the US for Monday's solar eclipse, here's a loop of the 30-minute temperature change from the eclipse.

Even locations far from totality experienced a pronounced drop in temperatures due to the decreased solar radiation!

'We can definitively say this was a brief tornado' | Jeff Evans with NWS Houston confirmed that damage to a Katy-area Firestone in West Harris County was caused by a brief EF-1 tornado with winds at 90 mph. Victor Jacobo John King

Full story: khou.com/article/weathe…

Houston we have a light show and as of now 4:50 am over 145,000 have lost power.

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NWS Houston  Rita Garcia Texas Storm Chasers ⚡  @Mattlanza James Spann The Weather Channel Justin Platek
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Found a 95mph velocity reading just east of San Leon, TX out over Galveston Bay, Radi K

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Backside of the storm lightning strike. In slow motion.

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What does a “lightning strike per second” actually look like?

This.

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79.4mph radar indicated wind speed south of Houston near Rosharon, TX

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Very Noisy Thunderstorm here in Fort Bend TX Billy Forney 3 James Spann Texas Storm Chasers ⚡ #txwx #StormHour

Prolific lightning producing line of storms in SE TX tonight/this morning

Nearly 7 strikes per second throughout the entire complex!

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70mph wind gusts depicted by radar southwest of Houston near Needville, TX as of 2:50amCT.

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Amazing amount of lightning being discharged from these storms west of Houston tonight. More than 9,000 radar-detected lightning strikes in the last 20 minutes as of 2:25amCT. That equates to 450 strikes/minute, or nearly 8 strikes/ second across the entire complex. #houwx #txwx

This severe-warned storm west-southwest of Houston and south of Sealy has dumped a radar-estimated 2.24” in 44 minutes, equivalent to a rate of 3.05” per hour! Torrential rains with the training of this system.

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Severe Thunderstorm Watch is in effect for approaching storms, while heavy rains have inundated areas east of Houston in SE TX tonight. Greater than 6”+ rainfall totals are starting to show up.

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A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for parts of Texas until 7 AM CDT

In 2017, I did something dumb. There was a total solar eclipse passing through the US, but I was in NY, far from the path. Was I really gonna get on a plane to see a cool thing for two minutes? Nah. I had shit to do.

The day came. I put my stupid glasses on and saw the sun…