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Tropical Storm Could Form in the Gulf This Week
The system has a 40% chance of forming in 48 hours and could bring several days of heavy rain and flooding to the Gulf Coast.
- The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a disturbance over Mexico that could become a "short-lived tropical storm" by Wednesday or Thursday as it moves into the northwestern Gulf.
- Currently a trough of low pressure over northeastern Mexico, the system remains inland but will encounter marginally conducive conditions upon re-emerging over the northwestern Gulf late Tuesday or Wednesday.
- Regardless of tropical formation, residents across southern and eastern Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi should prepare for intense rainfall that could produce "widespread, life-threatening flash, urban, and river flooding."
- Tropical Storm Watches or Warnings could be required as early as Tuesday, with gusty winds and coastal flooding possible along portions of the northwestern Gulf Coast.
- If the system develops, it would be named "Arthur," the first storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts will be below-normal with 8 to 14 named storms.
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Gulf disturbance, moist air mass combine for continuing flood watch in Baton Rouge, National Weather Service says
With a potential tropical cyclone moving along the northwestern Gulf Coast and a stalled humid air mass still in place over the area, Baton Rouge remains under a flood watch through Friday morning, the National Weather Service said.
·Baton Rouge, United States
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Total News Sources43
Leaning Left3Leaning Right3Center12Last UpdatedBias Distribution67% Center
Bias Distribution
- 67% of the sources are Center
67% Center
L 17%
C 67%
R 16%
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