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Areas of Heavy Rainfall and Heat Early This Week

Excessive rainfall may produce locally considerable flash flooding over parts of South Texas, the western Gulf Coast, and lower Mississippi River Valley today into Thursday. Rainfall totals of 5 to 10 inches are expected. Hot temperatures may cause heat illnesses over central and northern California and the Pacific Northwest through Tuesday. Read More >

Fig. 18. Radar base reflectivity from 2206 to 2340 UTC showing convection along an east- to-west oriented segment of Claudette’s outer rainband north of the storm’s center. At least two storms seen in the loop were relatively long lived and displayed evidence of storm scale organization.