Hurricane Harvey's deadliest threat is just beginning
Hurricane Harvey hit land on Friday night as the strongest storm to strike the U.S. since before the Twitter era — since Hurricane Wilma hit Florida in 2005. While its strongest winds are steadily weakening due to the interaction with land, the winds are not what meteorologists have been most worried about with this storm.
Instead, it's the water that will do the most damage, and that aspect of this storm is just getting started, even if the storm's winds weaken it to tropical storm status.
Harvey is going to turn into an atmospheric orphan, left behind by upper level steering currents, and allowed to rain itself out over southeastern Texas for at least five days or more. The rainfall totals in the forecast are staggering — up to 40 inches in some places between Corpus Cristi and Houston. Read more...
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