Houston: Nicholas tropical storm rose to off the Gulf coastal and could blow ashore in Texas as a storm Monday for carrying heavy rain and flooding to coastal areas of Mexico.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said the top sustainable wind reached 60 mph (95 kph).
It traveled northwest at 5 MPH (7 KPH) on the expected path to pass near the South Texas coast Monday then, then moved on the beach along the coast of South Texas or the middle on Monday night.
Some schools in the Houston and Galveston area were closed on Monday because of the incoming storm.
Nicholas centered around 40 miles (65 kilometers) southeast of the mouth of the Rio Grande, and 210 miles (325 kilometers) south of Port O’Connor, Texas, on Monday morning.
At 7 o’clock in the morning, the storm “moves erratic” just off the coast of northeast of Mexico, said the national storm center.
The storm hours were removed from Port Aransas to Freeport, Texas.
Most of the coastline of the country is under the warning of tropical storms because the system is expected to bring heavy rain which can cause flash floods and urban floods.
The total 8 to 16-inch rainfall (20 to 40 centimeters) is expected along the intermediate Texas coast and up with a maximum amount of isolated 20 inches (50 centimeters).
Other parts of Texas and Southwest Louisiana can see rain of 5 to 10 inches (12.5 to 25 centimeters) over the coming days.
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Greg Abbott said the state had placed the team and resource rescue in the Houston area and along the Texas Gulf Coast.
“This is a storm that can make heavy rain, and wind and maybe floods, in various regions along the Gulf Coast.
We urge you to listen to local weather warnings, pay attention to local warnings,” Abbott said in video messages.
Nicholas headed to the same Texas area who was hit hard by Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
The storm made a landing on the Central Texas coast then jammed for four days, down more than 60 inches (152 cm) in the southeast part of Texas.
Harvey was blamed for at least 68 deaths.
Louisiana Gov.
John Bel Edwards on Sunday night declared an emergency ahead of the arrival of a storm in the state that was still recovering from Ida’s storm and was historic last year.
“The most severe threat to Louisiana is in the southwestern part of the country, where the recovery of Hurricane Laura and the flood may be ongoing.
In this area heavy rain and flash floods it is possible.
However, it is also possible that all South Louisiana will see heavy rain this week, Including areas recently affected by Hurricane Ida, “Edwards said.
The storm is expected to bring the toughest rainfall to the west where the Ida storm slams to Louisiana two weeks ago.
Although the forecast did not expect Louisiana to suffer from strong winds, Bob Henson’s meteorological experts on Yale’s climate connection predicted rainfall could still tarnish places where the storm rolled the house, paralyzed electricity infrastructure and water and went at least 26 people.
“There may be some inches of rain across Southeast Louisiana, where Ida struck,” Henson said in an email.
Throughout Louisiana, only more than 110,000 customers remain without power on Monday morning, according to the utility tracking site poweroutage.us.
The storm is projected to move slowly on the beach and can bring heavy rain for several days, said Meteorologist Donald Jones from national weather services on Lake Charles, Louisiana.
“Heavy rain, flash floods seem to be the biggest threat in our region,” he said.
While Lake Charles received a minimum impact of IDA, the city saw many wallop from Hurricane Laura and Hurricane Delta in 2020, the winter storm in February and the historic flood of this spring.
“We are still a very obsolete city,” said Lake Charles Major Nic Hunter.
He said the city took the threat of a serious storm, because of all tropical systems.
“Hope and prayer are not a good game plan,” Hunter said.
In the Cameron parish on the coast of Louisiana, Scott’s side still finished repairs at his damaged house from Hurricane Laura last year who put about 2 feet of water at his home.
He hopes to have finished with Christmas.
He said many in his area had moved instead of rebuilding.
“If you make your butt whipping around four times, you will not rise again.
You will go somewhere else,” said the ban.
Colorado State University Hurricane Researcher Phil Klotzbach said through Twitter that Nicholas was the 14th storm of 2021 the Atlantic storm season.
Only 4 other years since 1966 has 14 storms named or more on September 12: 2005, 2011, 2012 and 2020.