A car drives on the highway in heavy rain during Hurricane Beryl on July 8, 2024 in Houston, Texas. Tropical Storm Beryl developed into a Category 1 hurricane as it hit the Texas coast last night.
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Satellite image shows tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico on September 9, 2024.
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The disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to intensify into a tropical storm on Monday and could become a hurricane before reaching the U.S. Gulf Coast by midweek.
The storm, named Potential Tropical Cyclone Six, is located about 300 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Rio Grande and is moving north-northwest. The National Hurricane Center said earlier Monday it was expected to move offshore to the northern Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday and approach the Louisiana and upper Texas coastlines on Wednesday. consult.
A tropical storm watch is in effect for northeastern Mexico and southern Texas.
Potential Tropical Cyclone Six is ​​expected to bring heavy rain and flash flooding to the coasts of northeastern Mexico, southern Texas, southern Louisiana and southern Mississippi on Thursday morning, the hurricane center said.
The weather service said that while it’s too early to predict the exact location of the impact, the storm has the potential to cause life-threatening storm surge and damaging winds “beginning Tuesday night in Louisiana and Parts of the upper Texas coastline are increasing”.
The 2024 Atlantic storm season begins in June and ends on November 30, and so far there have been five named storms, three of which have become hurricanes.
Tropical cyclone activity in August was “slightly below normal” in terms of number of named storms, hurricane center says. Debbie lands in the Big Bend, Florida area as a Category 1 hurricane, then moved offshore and made landfall again in South Carolina as a tropical storm in early August, while Ernesto becomes a Category 1 hurricane as it moves over Bermuda in mid-August.
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has predicted Hurricane activity above normal levels This year, the Atlantic basin is expected to see 17 to 25 named storms, defined as winds of 39 mph or more, with eight to 13 expected to become hurricanes. Activity is expected to be above normal due to near-record warm ocean temperatures in the Atlantic, La Niña conditions in the Pacific, reduced Atlantic trade winds, and reduced wind shear.
The next storm will be named Francine.
