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Flood watch in effect at Hurricane Ida disaster zone; Hurricane Larry grows
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Flood watch in effect at Hurricane Ida disaster zone; Hurricane Larry grows

More rain coming to the Hurricane Ida disaster zone while Larry grows in the AtlanticYou have to feel for the people in Louisiana who are trying to recover from Hurricane Ida. The rainy weather pattern that has plagued them all year just won’t let up. Yet another weak front is drifting toward the northern Gulf coast. Periods of heavy rain are forecast for the next couple of days unrelated to the disturbance in the Gulf.

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More rain coming to the Hurricane Ida disaster zone while Larry grows in the Atlantic

You have to feel for the people in Louisiana who are trying to recover from Hurricane Ida. The rainy weather pattern that has plagued them all year just won’t let up. Yet another weak front is drifting toward the northern Gulf coast. Periods of heavy rain are forecast for the next couple of days unrelated to the disturbance in the Gulf.

The National Weather Service is forecasting 2 to 3 inches today. And a Flood Watch is in effect.

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The nominal center of the Tropical Disturbance we’ve been tracking as it crawled across Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula is now over the southern Gulf of Mexico. The upper-level winds are not conducive for it to develop in the short term, but it’s carrying a slug of tropical moisture on its right side.

Over the next could days, the disturbance is forecast to drift toward the northern Gulf coast, likely as just a moisture surge. But to the extent it impacts the disaster zone in southeastern Louisiana, it will be unwelcome.