Gulf, Texas and Tropical cyclone
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There’s growing concern a potential tropical system could bring significant flooding to the Gulf Coast, but questions remain in the forecast.
The National Hurricane Center thinks a tropical depression could form in the Gulf in a few days. Forecasters continued to track an area of low pressure that was in the western Atlantic Ocean just east of the Florida peninsula on Tuesday. It is expected to move westward, across the Sunshine State, and into the Gulf by Wednesday.
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Watching the Gulf for potential tropical development, heavy rain | Tracking the TropicsTAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A tropical depression may soon develop in the Gulf, threatening to dump several inches of rain along parts of the Gulf coast. An area of low pressure (Invest-93L) off the east coast of Florida is gradually becoming better defined ...
A weather system moving across Florida wasn’t even a tropical something but it has the potential to develop into a tropical depression as it moves across the Gulf later in the week. National
The Florida Panhandle will see heavy rainfall from Invest 93L after it reaches the Gulf on Wednesday. The greatest threat to the area at the moment is flash flooding in low-lying, poor-drainage areas and urban locations. Invest 93L is currently expected to make landfall near Louisiana's southeastern coast Thursday morning.
"Should development take place on the Atlantic side of Florida, it may once again drift northward toward the U.S. coast," Accuweather said on July 11. The more plausible option is development on the Gulf side, which could be steered westward along the northern Gulf Coast, the weather forecast company stated.