It’s looking increasingly as if Hurricane Emily — currently a powerful category 4 hurricane — is headed toward Brownsville and the Texas Rio Grande Valley, probably by Tuesday of next week. Current projections have Emily weakening while it goes over the Yucatan Peninsula this weekend, but strengthening to a category 3 storm once it travels back over the warm Gulf waters.
After having virtually no rainfall for a 45 day period prior to July 1, the Houston area has received as much as 10 inches of rainfall over the past two weeks.