For the decision to not spend a few hundred thousand dollars shoring up the city’s defenses against a storm, Galveston’s government saw damage totaling an estimated $30 million. Weather Underground provides local & long-range weather forecasts, weatherreports, maps & tropical weather conditions for the Galveston area. Watch live streaming video and stay updated on Houston news. Instead of putting up a sea wall to protect against potential storms or putting a comprehensive evacuation plan in place, the Bureau essentially allowed a massive loss of life through inaction. Tuesday.Southwest Winds 5 To 10 Knots Becoming South 10 To 15 Knots In The Afternoon. View our Mega Doppler Galveston County weather radar map for current weather conditions for Galveston County and the surrounding areas. It would have been prudent to evacuate the city and get residents out of the path of the storm. The vast majority of the lives lost during the landfall of the storm could have been prevented if the agency had listened to reports of how strong the storm was as it gathered steam along the Gulf Coast. The failure of the Weather Bureau in Galveston is hard to overstate. 2 Week Extended Forecast in Galveston, Texas, USA Jul 8, 92 / 85 F Light rain. This massive wall of water also devastated the city’s buildings and infrastructure, sending splintered debris rolling out into the ocean. The storm surge alone was responsible for the majority of the estimated 8,000 people killed by the storm.
Picture ten feet of water washing over a sandbar with a city on it. NWS Forecast Office Houston/Galveston, TX.
Weather Today Weather Hourly 14 Day Forecast Yesterday/Past Weather Climate (Averages) Currently: 85 ☏. When the hurricane hit, it did so with an estimated storm surge of ten feet of water running over the entirety of Galveston. Climate & Weather Averages in Galveston, Texas, USA. On Saturday, July 2, take in Beats on the Beach at Moody Gardens’ Palm Beach.The fun begins at 7 p.m. However, at the urging of some politically motivated meteorologists, the government of the city took the opinion that it would be impossible for a hurricane to hit the island. Galveston, TX traffic updates reporting highway and road conditions with live interactive map including flow, delays, accidents, construction, closures,traffic jams and congestion, driving conditions, text alerts, gridlock, and driving conditions for the Galveston area and Galveston county. What’s more, some residents had called for the construction of a sea wall to protect the island in the event of storm surges from hurricanes.