The weekend produced a discouraging forecast for Texas, where strong storms generated flooding throughout Saturday. To make matters worse, the adverse weather conditions continue this Sunday and will begin to diminish only at the beginning of the week. What will happen in other states? USES? The alarms have been activated and the residents of the North American country must be very attentive.
He National Metereological Service, which makes a daily prediction with the aim of informing the population, released an unpleasant statement. “A break in heavy rain is expected until Saturday afternoon, although the next round of heavy rain will arrive Saturday night and continue this Sunday,” he wrote.
With that brief message he made it clear that this May 5, the negative news regarding weather conditions will continue. The forecast was for up to 7.6 centimeters (3 inches) more water, and up to 12.7 cm (5 inches) in isolated areas.
Although the context is negative, it does not have a very serious or tragic tone: “Houston authorities reported no deaths or injuries,” report specialists on the matter. Furthermore, the judge Lina Hidalgo, the county’s top elected official, said 178 people and 122 pets had been rescued so far in the country over the difficult weekend. In addition to preparing to evacuate property, there were also rescues on roads covered in murky water.
When it came to detailing the affected areas, a large region was flooded, Houston to the rural area of East Texas, where forest guards used boats in waist-deep waters to help the victims and animals that could not find a way out of the siege. “It will continue to rise like this,” he said. Miguel Flores Jr.from the neighborhood of kingwood, in northeast Houston. “We don’t know much more. “We just prepared for the worst.”
More problems
“A large, closed upper cyclone over the northern plains should move little on Tuesday. In turn, in the Middle South towards the valley of Ohio there will likely be a series of storms Tuesday morning. However, this activity may tend to weaken in the morning hours, but could still represent an isolated strong or gusty wind,” the storm center notes.
He adds: “In any case, scattered strong to severe storms should extend east-northeast across the OH Valley Tuesday afternoon, posing a threat of primarily damaging winds and severe hail.”
Furthermore, the humidity of the Gulf of Mexico will help bring showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain over parts of the east. Therefore, the WPC issued a slight risk (level 2/4) of excessive rainfall over parts of the Northern High Plains from Monday to Tuesday morning. The associated heavy rainfall will mainly create localized flash flooding areas, with urban areas, roads, small streams.
In addition, showers and thunderstorms with heavy rain will occur in parts of eastern Kansas/Nebraska and the west of Iowa/Missouri. Therefore, the WPC issued a Slight (level 2/4) risk of excessive rainfall in parts of the Central Region and Plains/Middle Mississippi Valley Monday through Tuesday mornings.
