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  Could Saharan Dust Clouding Our Skies Dampen Hurricanes?

  June 30 at 6:09 a.m.

  Once again this week, much of East Texas will sit beneath a haze of dust that has traveled across the Atlantic Ocean from the Sahara Desert. Unlike last Friday, it won't be quite as intense, but anyone with allergies or asthma will certainly feel the effects. This time of year,...

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  Houston Flooding Possible Tuesday Night and Wednesday Morning Says NWS

  June 23 at 3:47 p.m.

  It looks like rain is in the forecast for Tuesday night, along with a side of potential flooding for Houston. On Tuesday afternoon, the National Weather Service issued a Flash Flood Watch for Houston and surrounding areas, lasting from 7 p.m. June 23 through 7 a.m. Wednesday, June 24. After...

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  You Might Need a Mask for More Than COVID-19 This Week

  June 23 at 4:30 a.m.

  Add it to the list of apocalyptic signs in 2020, from locusts to murder hornets to pandemics...now, a dust storm. Saharan dust — literally dust blown off the Sahara Desert in Africa — is a common weather condition in the summer months across the Atlantic Basin. Huge plumes of the...

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  Cristobal Falling Apart, Still a Risk for Northern Gulf

  June 5 at 5:49 a.m.

  No one can accuse 2020 of not being interesting. The latest, of course, is the artist formerly known as Tropical Storm Cristobal, churning itself ragged over Mexico as this is being written. The early season storm — now a depression — spent most of Thursday over land, weakening it significantly...

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  Tropical Storm Cristobal Likely to Threaten Texas/Louisiana, but As What?

  June 4 at 4 a.m.

  Tropical Storm Cristobal is drifting around just onshore in Mexico south of the Bay of Campeche as of writing this, and the longer it remains over land, the more disorganized it will be when it reemerges later this week. After that time, the forecast models seem in fairly good agreement...

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  Tropical Depressions: Three in the Gulf, One to Watch

  June 2 at 4 a.m.

  Impeachment trials, pandemics, intense protests and riots, murder hornets, even a plague of locusts (yes) have turned 2020 into one for the record books — books we will all want to destroy with fire if we make it through the year — and it's only the beginning of June. But,...