“The heaviest rain will come to an end through the evening and lighter rain is expected for Monday as the low pressure begins to depart to the east, but windy conditions will likely continue with an additional ½” of rain possible.
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A Flash Flood Watch is in effect until 7 a.m. Monday for Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Grimes, Harris, Jackson, Liberty, Matagorda, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Walker, Waller, Washington and Wharton counties. The long-range forecast is for more rain next weekend. An upper low coming from the Southwest will get a double dose of tropical moisture from both the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific. This has already caused a few brief heavy rain this morning.
Widespread, heavy rain and thunderstorms will continue to be possible through the day. That said the heaviest rainfall totals look to fall across the Western and Southern Brazos Valley. Computer models project upwards of 18 inches in Austin and drench the Victoria area with more than 12 inches of rain.
Widespread accumulations of four to six inches, with isolated eight to 10 inch totals, are expected from Houston down the coast toward Corpus Christi.
“It has been an all-or-nothing year for the South Central US”, Brad Rippey, a meteorologist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, said.
Rippey wrote the text accompanying the weekly U.S. Drought Monitor update released on Thursday, a report that’s going to quickly be irrelevant.
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All throughout the month of October, we’ve been under a drought. We just don’t need too much at one time.
