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A flood watch will go into effect for much of south Louisiana later this week as a slow-moving low-pressure system heads toward the Gulf of Mexico, bringing with it the potential for downpours and flash flooding along the Gulf Coast.
Dusty skies and lower rain chances are expected midweek across Southeast Texas, but the calm may not last. A system in the Gulf could bring tropical downpours after the dust clears out.
Texas on Saturday faces an upper-atmosphere wave of low pressure that could trigger storms and an increasingly deep flow of Gulf moisture.
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration will delay by two years a final rule designating protections for the endangered Rice's whale in the oil and gas drilling region of the Gulf of Mexico, according to an agreement with environmental groups filed in a federal court.
Radar and precipitation data and National Weather Service warnings show the floods were the result of extraordinary atmospheric conditions that sent intense plumes of Gulf of Mexico moisture into parts of Texas long known to be vulnerable to flash flooding,
The commercial shrimp season for state and federal waters will reopen 30 minutes after sunset on July 15, according to a Texas Parks and Wildlife news release.
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Weather warnings predicted devastation from both the Texas floods and Hurricane Helene. But in both disasters, people were left in harm’s way.
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WooGlobe on MSNTropical Storm Dexter Could Be Forming in the GulfThe Gulf of Mexico is under the watchful eye of the National Hurricane Center as a cluster of storms off Florida shows signs of tropical development. As these storms head west into the Gulf's warm waters,