Texas can breathe a little easier Friday as forecasts full of worries about weekend flooding across Texas are now trending drier because Lorena, once a potent Pacific hurricane, has weakened back into a mere area of low atmospheric pressure stuck out at sea.
The center of the the system, as of 9 a.m., was stationary about 170 miles west of Mexico’s Baja California peninsula, producing maximum winds of only 35 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center.
“A slow north-northwestward to northwestward motion is expected through early Saturday, followed by a turn toward the west-northwest over the weekend,” hurricane center forecasters said in an update bulletin Friday…