The Seablogger (who lives in a vulnerable cabin cruiser docked on Florida’s east coast, and so keeps an eye on approaching storms) thinks Felix, the likely next Atlantic tropical storm (possibly to be named later today), could wind up in the Gulf of Mexico, though he isn’t predicting where it might go ashore. Even if it didn’t head for Texas, we’re likely to see some serious rain this Labor Day Weekend and next week out of TS Henriette, which the hurricane center expects to track up the Pacific coast of Mexico today. Tropical storms and hurricanes that do that often send heavy rain across the mountains into Central Texas. I can’t find any of the usual-suspect meteorologists around here predicting it yet, but Accuweather’s Joe Bastardi is.
UPDATE: It’s not Felix yet, but it is Tropical Depression Six and, so far, the hurricane center has it aimed south of where Dean hit the Yucatan. Unless it moves a bit north, it won’t make the Gulf.
MORE: Finally it became Felix, and still, more or less, aimed at Belize.
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