Beryl made landfall in east Texas very early Monday as a Category 1 hurricane, producing damaging winds, a destructive storm surge, flash flooding, and spinning up a few tornadoes east of the center. During Monday, as the storm moved north, rapid weakening of wind strength would not mitigate the flooding rains produced by Beryl, as seen in Weather Prediction Center projections. One saving grace will be the acceleration in the storm’s forward motion as it curls to the northeast , lessening residence time over any given locations once it moves away from Texas.
Beryl will weaken to a tropical depression, and the remnant low will curve to the northeast, toward the Great Lakes. That is where we will come in, by Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center track forecast began moving the low’s path much closer to our region on Sunday, and that trend still holds .
Although the system will have greatly weakened by then in terms of a pressure gradient and winds, it will continue to transport a high volume of tropical moisture. Before we get to that point, the week begins in summery fashion. Heat was rebuilding Monday, with afternoon highs reaching the upper 80s.
Fortunately, although the breeze was light, humidity remained moderate. Lake Erie hit 70 degrees here two days earlier than it ever has before, on June 19, and went on to set single-day records every day for the rest of the month , nesting at 73 degrees through the final seven days. On Tuesday, the dew points and humidity will.
