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The New York Times News Service
After Beryl pounds eastern Texas with torrential rain and strong winds, it will continue to move across the eastern half of the United States over the next several days.
Monday:
Several hours after making landfall in Matagorda, Texas, the storm began weakening. It was expected to drop in wind intensity to become a tropical storm by midday as the center passes near Houston.
The storm is producing flooding rainfall of 3-8 inches, with up to 15 inches in some isolated areas. Because of the storm’s compact size, the heaviest rainfall was expected to remain fairly narrow. Where exactly the heaviest rain will fall depends on Beryl’s exact path. The storm should be almost, if not entirely, out of Texas by early Tuesday.
Tuesday:
As the storm tracks across Arkansas, it most likely will have weakened even further, and it may have become a post-tropical storm by this point. That means it will be more like a typical storm system sweeping across the U.S. this time of year.
The storm’s plume of tropical moisture could cause flash flooding from Arkansas to Indiana during the day, with 2-4 inches of rainfall expected and local maximums upward of 8 inches possible.
Wednesday:
The remnants of Beryl will continue across Indiana and bring rain to the region. There is much uncertainty about where the low pressure associated with Beryl will track, but there is a growing signal for a broad area to be impacted by the heavy rains. There is at least some risk of excessive rain from northern Indiana to New Hampshire.
Thursday and beyond:
The remnants of Beryl will come together with other weather ingredients and could produce heavy rain and the potential for flash flooding in the Eastern Seaboard late this week.
Showers and storms could linger into the weekend for portions of the East, but forecasters with the Weather Prediction Center said rain amounts do not look as focused or heavy.
