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Rain Coming to Drought-Stricken Southern U.S.

A storm tracking across the Southern U.S. will bring heavy to excessive rainfall over portions of west-central Texas into tonight then from central Texas through the central Gulf Coast on Friday. The Southeast U.S. will see heavier rain Saturday. While much of this rainfall will be beneficial to the drought, excessive rainfall may bring areas of flash and urban flooding. Read More >

Southeast Texas Weather Briefing

The Multi-media Weather Briefing is designed to be a briefing tool for a variety of users including emergency managers. The briefing will be updated with information concerning the latest forecast challenges, forecast uncertainty, and weather hazards. The idea is to give you more of the "Why?" of the forecast. This briefing will be updated usually each Sunday night, Tuesday night and Thursday night. The briefing will discuss weather hazards over the next 3 days, and may be updated daily should significant weather threaten Southeast Texas. Please take our ONLINE SURVEY and tell us what you think about this product!

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