Tropical Storm Beta to drop a foot of rain in Texas and Louisiana
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[September 21, 2020]
(Reuters) - Tropical Storm Beta was
predicted to bring a foot of rain to parts of coastal Texas and
Louisiana next week as the 23rd named storm of this year's Atlantic
hurricane season moves ashore on Monday night, the National Hurricane
Center said.
Forecasters warned on Sunday that coastal communities could be inundated
with floods and see sustained winds of 60 miles per hour (95 km per
hour), though the storm is expected to weaken as it moves inland.
Slow-moving storms that deluge coasts are becoming a regular occurrence,
a development that scientists attribute to climate change.
This month marks only the second time in history that the sheer number
of storms has forced forecasters to turn to the Greek alphabet for
names, having exhausted their alphabetical list of names selected before
the season began. The first year that storms exceeded given names was
2005, when there were a record 27 named storms.
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Beta is the third named storm in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico in less than a
month, following Laura and Sally.
Oil and gas producers had been restarting their offshore operations over
the weekend after being disrupted by Sally. As Beta neared, Royal Dutch
Shell Plc <RDSa.L> halted some oil production and began evacuating
workers from a platform in the Gulf.
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Slow-moving Beta could drop between 8 and 12 inches (20 to 30 cm) of
rain through Thursday, with up to 20 inches in some isolated areas,
the NHC said, warning residents to beware flash flooding.
Forecasters were also tracking Hurricane Teddy in the Atlantic Ocean
as it headed toward Bermuda, where it was due to arrive Sunday night
before heading north to Nova Scotia for Wednesday. The storm is
large, with hurricane-force winds extending 80 miles (135 km) from
its center, and could cause dangerous rip currents along beaches on
the U.S. East Coast, the NHC said.
(Reporting by Jonathan Allen in New York; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)
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