Alert in Texas, Louisiana and Northwest Mexico for Tropical Storm Nicholas

Tropical Storm Nicholas was moving across the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday and is expected to

strengthen on its way

to the coasts of Texas, Louisiana and northeastern Mexico, where it is forecast to bring heavy rains and cause flooding.

The National Hurricane Center indicates that Nicholas can dump

5 to 10 inches

of rainfall

over parts of the Texas and Louisiana coast

from Sunday afternoon into the week.

He added that in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas, rainfall of between 5 and 13 centimeters (2 to 5 inches) is predicted between Sunday and Monday.

The eye of the storm

will pass near the coasts of northeastern Mexico and southern Texas on Monday, hitting southern or central Texas on Monday night or early Tuesday, according to the latest report.

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"I ask Texans to follow instructions and warnings from local authorities and to

watch out for heavy rain and flooding

," Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a statement.

The trajectory of the storm Nicholas, according to the forecast of the intensity of the winds in Mexico and the United States.

National Hurricane Center USA

The president ordered to enable the necessary resources to attend to any eventuality that happens on the coast.

The storm comes about two weeks after Hurricane Ida, which hit Louisiana, killing at least 26 people, destroying homes and leaving thousands of people without water or power.

As of Sunday morning there were still some 140,198 people in the state - 6.3% of the population - without power, according to the state Public Utilities Commission.

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The storm is likely to move up the coast and trigger heavy rains for several days, said meteorologist Donald Jones of the National Weather Service in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

"

There could be heavy downpours in southeastern Louisiana where Hurricane Ida impacted

," Bob Henson, a meteorologist at Yale Climate Connections, told the AP agency.

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At 2 pm the storm was located

about 180 miles northeast of Veracruz

, Mexico, and 310 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Rio Grande.

The Mexican National Meteorological Service issued a warning for the formation of the tropical storm.

Although it is not expected to make landfall in Mexico or escalate to a hurricane, the authorities predicted "heavy to torrential rains over the states of Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas and Tabasco, and very strong in Puebla" due to a storm in the south and southeast of the country.

A satellite image from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration shows Tropical Storm Nicholas in the Gulf of Mexico on September 12, 2021.

The phenomenon arises while Mexico faces the “most difficult week” for Civil Protection, as declared by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, after the floods that

on Tuesday caused 17 deaths in a hospital of the Mexican Institute of Social Security in Hidalgo

, in the center of the country.

In addition, last Wednesday, cyclone Olaf formed in the Pacific, which hit Baja California Sur, in the northwest, as a category 2 hurricane, and left one dead due to a collapse on a highway in Jalisco, in the west.

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This Sunday, the authorities asked the inhabitants of the states of the Gulf of Mexico and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec "to take extreme precautions."

"The rainfall generated by the

tropical

cyclone

could generate landslides, increase in the levels of rivers and streams, and overflows and floods

in low-lying areas," says the Mexican meteorological service in its latest statement.

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Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane expert at Colorado State University, noted on Twitter that Nicholas is the 14th storm to be named during the Atlantic season.

Aside from 2021, only four years have had that many storms before September 12: 2005, 2011, 2012 and 2020.

With information from AP and EFE