Heavy Storms Continue Along Texas & Louisiana Gulf Coast With Some Tropical Development Possible
08/31/24 8:50am ET
Good morning everyone. The Northeast is socked in by clouds as that long-ranging cold front from Canada to Texas, slowly drags its way to the Eastern Seaboard. We’ll be watching for scattered storms in interior sections of the Northeast today, plus parts of the Ohio Valley, but we turn our eyes elsewhere to see the full impact of this cold front. Regardless, the Northeast is in for a beautiful workweek once this front passes by, with widespread 70 degree temps, cool nights, and low humidity.
The “elsewhere” would be along the Gulf Coast of Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi; plus interior sections of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia. For the Gulf Coast, heavy showers and thunderstorms continue to inundate areas such as New Orleans, Lake Charles, and the Texas barrier islands just on the other side of the Louisiana border.
Unfortunately because of its slow movement, there is a slight chance we could see this tropical moisture go beyond and organize into a tropical depression. It’s all semantics though at this point, because we’re already seeing isolated severe weather, torrential rain, flooding, gusty winds, and some waterspouts.