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6 years ago today Cat 4 Hurricane Harvey makes landfall. It went from a tropical disturbance to 130 mph winds in a just over two days. The storm slowed and stalled, and went on to be one of the most prodigious flood-makers in U.S. history. Harvey produced a multiday total of over 60" in and around near Nederland, TX. Harvey went on to become the 2nd most costly hurricane in U.S. history behind only Katrina in 2005. Harvey is an extreme example of the apparent uptick in the rapid intensification cycles we have witnessed in recent decades and that storm systems are slowing at our latitude in concert with our changing climate circulations. Bottom line, if you remember the unnamed Louisiana storm of 2016, another slow-moving flood-maker, expect these biblical-like rain events to continue somewhere on the Gulf Coast in the future, no matter the intensity of the system. I archived this 7 day video of infrared satellite imagery which incidentally went on display at a Nashville museum...making the video a museum piece, I guess. More on Harvey: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurric… NHC Report: nhc.noaa.gov/data/tcr/index.… #HurricaneHarvey #txwx #lawx