Frank Billingsley

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Host and Executive Producer, Hello Houston at KUHF-FM (Houston, TX)

I am Chief Meteorologist at KPRC-TV (NBC) in Houston, Texas

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Understanding rapid intensification of hurricane

Oct 8, 2024 | click2houston.com | Frank Billingsley

Hurricane Helene has been undergoing rapid intensification and now stands with winds of 120 mph. At 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 2, maximum sustained winds were at 45 mph, then at 10 Wednesday, Oct. 3, winds were at 80 mph. Winds have now increased to 120 mph. THAT is the classic definition of rapid intensification: when winds increase by 35 mph or more in 24 hours or less! Couldn’t be more spot on. What does that mean?
Chief Meteorologist Frank Billingsley to Houston: Good Bye and Good Blog

Jun 28, 2024 | click2houston.com | Frank Billingsley

Published: June 28, 2024, 5:45 AMTags: weather blog, ForecastPublished: June 28, 2024, 5:45 AMTags: weather blog, ForecastWEATHER PUN ALERT: You’ve been showered with the news and surely snow that I’m giving up my rain as Chief Meteorologist tonight after four decades in the High Pressure cooker, thirty years at KPRC2. Retire? Don’t mind if I dew.
Here’s what hit Houston yesterday

May 17, 2024 | click2houston.com | Frank Billingsley

Published: May 17, 2024, 10:19 AMPublished: May 17, 2024, 10:19 AMThe National Weather Service will make final determinations about just what weather phenomenon moved across Houston yesterday, but my best guess this morning is that we had a “Derecho”, pronounced Deh-RAY-cho (Spanish for “straight”). Let me explain. By definition, a Derecho creates straight line wind damage which extends more than 240 miles and includes wind gusts of at least 58 mph or greater along most of its length.
Deadly storms: Here’s what weather icon Frank Billingsley thinks hit Houston last night

May 17, 2024 | click2houston.com | Frank Billingsley |Tiffani Lupenski

Published: May 17, 2024, 2:26 PMTags: Weather Blog, Houston, Severe Weather, Texas, National Weather ServicePublished: May 17, 2024, 2:26 PMTags: Weather Blog, Houston, Severe Weather, Texas, National Weather ServiceThere were 130 wind reports from Thursday evening’s storm in Houston, indicating the presence of a derecho. Bow echoes, which are associated with strong winds hitting the surface and then fanning out, were visible on the radar.
Here’s what hit Houston yesterday

May 17, 2024 | click2houston.com | Frank Billingsley |Tiffani Lupenski

Published: May 17, 2024, 1:07 PMTags: Weather Blog, Houston, Severe WeatherPublished: May 17, 2024, 1:07 PMTags: Weather Blog, Houston, Severe WeatherThe National Weather Service will make final determinations about just what weather phenomenon moved across the Houston are yesterday, but my best guess this morning is that we had a “Derecho” - pronounced Deh-REH-cho (Spanish for “straight”). Let me explain.
Did the Houston area just get hit by a Tropical Storm?

Apr 29, 2024 | click2houston.com | Frank Billingsley

Published: April 29, 2024, 9:43 AMPublished: April 29, 2024, 9:43 AMOf course, not every spring storm takes on the characteristics of a tropical storm, but this one last night certainly came close. Usually, a fairly fast moving cold front moves through as winter’s last gasp creating those spring showers, but last night we had what is called a convergence zone that got stuck. What’s that?
Houston, we have a heat problem!

Apr 22, 2024 | click2houston.com | Frank Billingsley

Published: April 22, 2024, 9:44 AMPublished: April 22, 2024, 9:44 AMToday marks Earth Day...number 54 since its inception on April 22, 1970! All holidays and special days are intent on bringing awareness to whatever subject and bringing that awareness to our warming planet could not be more important than right now. March of this year was the WARMEST on record, putting 2016 in second place, 2020 in third and 2017 in fourth.
How Houston and everyone can birdwatch Galveston’s Featherfest

Apr 17, 2024 | click2houston.com | Frank Billingsley

Published: April 17, 2024, 10:43 AMPublished: April 17, 2024, 10:43 AMThanks to Galveston’s Ed Ferrin for today’s beautiful cover shot!FeatherFest, a Galveston tradition for birdwatchers, soars to the Island this week and weekend and they are expecting “a great crowd of folks coming from over 30 states! As you know, the Galveston area is on every birder’s bucket list.” That according to Julie Ann Brown, Executive Director of Galveston Island Nature Tourism Council.
Hurricane winds can be a forecaster’s nightmare!

Apr 10, 2024 | click2houston.com | Frank Billingsley

I had an interesting question land in my email box the other day from a Katy viewer: Frank — just out of curiosity, if a hurricane’s winds are measured at say 120 mph at ground level at landfall, how high up the hurricane “wall” is that windspeed still registering at 120 mph, or does it diminish or increase in speed at increasing heights? Or, does windspeed in fact vary considerably throughout the hurricane?
What the newest Hurricane forecast means to Houston and Galveston

Apr 5, 2024 | click2houston.com | Frank Billingsley

Published: April 5, 2024, 10:30 AMThe newest hurricane horror-cast came out yesterday, this one from Colorado State University: 23 tropical storms, 11 of those becoming hurricanes and 5 of those becoming major hurricanes (Category 3 or higher). Compare that to the average of 14-7-3 and the season ahead is looking a lot like the very busy 2020 season when we had 30 tropical systems form.