Tropical Storm Beta is moving slowly (3 miles per hour) this Sunday morning towards the coast of Texas, where it threatens rain, floods and storm surges in the Gulf of Mexico.
According to the latest report from the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Beta has maximum sustained winds of 60 miles per hour (95 km / h).
Experts predict a change in the storm's strength before it makes landfall on Monday.
And once it moves inland, they expect it to weaken.
The hurricane watch from Port Aransas to High Island
, both in Texas, has been discontinued.
Experts earlier predicted that Beta
would become a category one hurricane
.
In Galveston, authorities announced voluntary evacuation orders for all residents Saturday, as has the city of Seabrook, north of Galveston.
Satellite image of Tropical Storm Beta taken on Saturday, September 19, 2020. AP
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According to the latest report from the National Hurricane Center (NHC), at 4:00 a.m. Eastern time Sunday, Beta was 295 miles (470 km) from Corpus Christi, Texas, and 205 miles (330 km) ) southeast of Galveston, also in Texas,
There is a tropical storm watch from Puerto Aransas, Texas, to Morgan City, Louisiana.
The forecast points to a storm surge of up to 4 feet (1.2 meters) in parts of the Texas coast that include Baffin Bay, Corpus Christi Bay and Galveston Bay, among others.
The storm is expected to include high winds and rainfall, dangerous surf and rip currents.
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In an unusually active Atlantic hurricane season,
meteorologists ran out of letters of the traditional alphabet to name storms before Friday
and had to turn to the Greek alphabet for the second time since the 1950s.
Elsewhere, Teddy remained a powerful hurricane into early Sunday morning, with maximum sustained winds 115 miles per hour (185 km).
The meteor vortex was 340 miles (550 km) southeast of Bermuda, less than a week after Hurricane Paulette made landfall on British soil.
Authorities activated a tropical storm alert on the island.
The swells caused by Teddy are expected to be felt in the Greater and Lesser Antilles, in the Bahamas, Bermuda,
before reaching the East Coast of the United States
.
Parts of the Alabama coast and northwestern Florida are still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Sally, which hit the area Wednesday.
The system caused at least two deaths and hundreds of thousands of people were still without power Friday night.
With information from The Associated Press
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