Very wet Tropical Storm Nicholas heads for Texas Gulf Coast
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Tropical Storm Nicholas was moving up the Gulf Coast on Monday, threatening to bring heavy rain and floods to coastal areas of Texas, Mexico and storm-battered Louisiana.
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said Nicholas was strengthening, churning up top winds of 60 mph in a 1 a.m. CDT update. It was traveling north-northwest at 15 mph on a track forecast to pass near the South Texas coast later Monday, then move onshore along the coast of south or central Texas by Monday evening. But CBS Houston affiliate KHOU-TV chief meteorologist David Paul said Sunday night that his models have the storm moving somewhat more slowly. "We're now looking at a possible landfall around Matagorda Bay (southwest of the city) early Tuesday morning as a 65 mile-per-hour storm. That puts us on the wet side of the system. And by Tuesday night, a tropical storm could be sitting over the center of downtown Houston," Paul said.More Related News
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