Alex to Bring Heavy Rain
Hello and happy Monday everyone – I hope all is well.
Tropical Storms in both the Eastern Pacific and the Atlantic basin have been making headlines lately. Over the weekend, Hurricane Celia became a major, category 5 hurricane with gusts nearing 200mph. Darby became a major, category 3 hurricane over the weekend making it the earliest, 2nd major hurricane of the season in the Eastern Pacific since reliable records began in 1971.
Tropical Storm Alex in the Atlantic is still churning away near the Yucatan Peninsula and is forecast to become a hurricane by early Tuesday morning and perhaps a category 2 by later Tuesday eveing:
Alex to Bring Heavy Rain in Southern Texas
The latest HPC 5 day predicted rainfall map shows nearly 15″ of rain for southern Texas from Alex. I expect to see some Flood watches and warnings posted withing the next few days if this verifies:
Severe Risk Today
The severe threat today is fairly low, but there could be a few storms that develop along the cool front in the East from West Virginia to Mass. with the biggest threat today being wind later today.
That’s all for now, thanks for tuning in on this Monday, have a good rest of the day.
Meteorologist Todd Nelson – WeatherNation