As Hurricane Lorena makes it way across the Baja California peninsula and toward the southwestern Sonora on Wednesday, September 3, odds that Texas will see the impacts of the hurricane are increasing. While the hurricane is expected to weaken to a tropical storm as it moves though the Pacific Ocean later this week, it’s slated to cause heavy rainfall in the South-Central region of the U.S.
Lorena was determined to be a category one hurricane early Wednesday, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. However, the storm is expected to gain traction over the next 24 hours, and could bring 15 inches of rain to portions of the Baja California Sur, and four inches to states northwest of Mexico.
“This will bring the risk of life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, especially in areas of higher terrain,” the center wrote in a statement.
Tropical moisture from the storm is causing rain chances to climb across parts of Texas.The agency warns it could lead to localized threats of flash flooding, and even the Lone Star State is not exempt from its touchdown…