This definitely has my attention. Euro continues to show a lot of rain for TX. Storm comes ashore as a TS this run(weaker) in SE LA on Wednesday, but gets shunted W & SW by the strengthening ridge to the N & E in the days following.. Near Lake Charles Thursday,Over Houston area Friday morning, further S&W towards San Antonio by Saturday, then just kinda meanders around South & Central Texas until the run ends on Tuesday. Some big time rain for San Antonio & Austin areas if that were to verify, and pretty healthy totals for the Houston area. Doesn't appear to be a wind threat at this time, but certainly a widespread rain threat at this time. If this slows down while in the Gulf, all bets are off as it will have more time to get going. Still talking a good ways out if this verifies, and there is lots of time for things to evolve so keep an eye on the weather services in the coming days.
watched an update from one of our local Beaumont channels tonight. It said that the storm is almost for sure going to enter the gulf in about a day without significantly hitting Florida or Cuba to weaken it. The two most likely scenarios mentioned are for it to make landfall as a strong tropical storm/weak hurricane near the Mississippi/Bama/Fla panhandle area, and then shoot straight west and dump 8-20 inches of rain on us around Thursday, or... get pushed south further into the gulf, then hook up northwest and hit somewhere on the upper Texas coast or Louisiana as possibly a stronger storm. Of course, there are a couple of days for things to change, and hopefully something does, because neither of those options is particularly appealing for southeast Texas.
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