Power outages are mounting along the Texas coast after Hurricane Beryl came ashore Monday and lashed Houston with heavy rains and powerful winds.
Power outages are mounting along the Texas coast after Hurricane Beryl came ashore Monday and lashed Houston with heavy rains and powerful winds as the storm moved inland.around 4 a.m. Central Standard Time about 85 miles southwest of Houston with top sustained winds of 80 mph while moving north at 12 mph, the National Weather Service reported.More than 1 million homes and businesses were without power hours after Beryl made landfall, according to CenterPoint Energy in Houston .
High waters quickly began closing roads around Houston, which was again under flood warnings after heavy storms in recent monthsdumped soaking rains across Houston after coming ashore and was expected to bring damaging winds into East Texas, near Louisiana, as the storm pushed north after making landfall.
“Beryl’s moving inland but this is not the end of the story yet,” said Jack Beven, senior hurricane specialist at the National Hurricane Center.The National Weather Service expected Beryl to weaken to a tropical storm Monday and a tropical depression Tuesday, forecasting a turn to the northeast and increase in speed Monday night and Tuesday.
The storm's center is expected to move over eastern Texas on Monday and then through the lower Mississippi Valley into the Ohio Valley on Tuesday and Wednesday, the weather service said. Three times during its one week of life, Beryl has gained 35 mph in wind speed in 24 hours or less, the official weather service definition of rapid intensification.
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