Dangerous Flood Threat Looms In Texas As Tropical Disturbance In Gulf Pushes North
Source: Associated Press
By Brian McNoldy June 15 at 10:45 AM
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A tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico, with the potential to become the hurricane season’s second named storm, will bring a significant amount of tropical moisture and rainfall to the southern states this week — mostly to areas that are still saturated from the past couple months of above-average rainfall.
Beginning tonight and extending through Wednesday, eastern Texas and eastern Oklahoma could see widespread rainfall totals of five to seven inches, with isolated locations getting 10 or more. Needless to say, this could turn out to be a very dangerous situation for flash flooding in these areas that were inundated by excessive rainfall events time and again in May.
Flood and flash flood watches have already been issued as the tropical disturbance, which could be named Bill by the National Hurricane Center some time on Monday, tracks north toward Texas. The National Weather Service in Houston has issued a special weather statement warning residents in southeast Texas of a dangerous flood threat over the next few days.
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Seven-day rainfall forecast, from this morning through next Monday morning. (NOAA/WPC)
To put that forecast into perspective, consider these maps that highlight just how wet it has been there already this spring. The first one shows the rainfall anomaly as a percent of normal (if a location received 10 inches in the past 60 days and the average over the same period is five inches, that would be 200 percent of average).
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/06/15/dangerous-flood-threat-looms-in-texas-as-tropical-disturbance-pushes-north/
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could it be related to climate change from global warming? Nah, that's too close to science and everyone knows climatological science is not true...
I get that...and?
I never felt any glee at the misfortune of anyone else and never intimated that I did. Go try to pick a fight with someone else, no dice here. And if I had grabbed that bullshit bait, I would have been letting myself down. Go try to pick on someone else with your typical M.O.
for giving us eight years of George W. Bush! 
going to hit Ireland because god is mad at them.
I thought Florida was in charge of getting that kind of weather -- good thing climate change is a hoax...
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