Hurricane Center Monitoring The Gulf for Tropical Development

(KMDL-FM) Last week, the forecasters at the National Hurricane Center had their hands full with a weak but stubborn system that slowly moved from east to west across the Florida Peninsula and into the northern Gulf. That meant it was a wet week from New Orleans to Morgan City to Lake Charles in Louisiana.

From there, the wet weather woes continued westward toward Galveston, Houston, and Beaumont in Texas. And while the map with the graphic featured below might look like it’s from last week, it’s not. It’s currently what’s brewing or about to be brewing just off the Texas and Louisiana coastline.

This week, forecasters at the National Hurricane Center are monitoring a similar scenario, oddly enough, involving some of the same moisture that affected the Gulf earlier.

And once again, the potential for tropical development is prevalent, so the Hurricane Center is monitoring an area very close to the Louisiana and Texas coastlines for potential development over the next seven days…

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