I know you've been busy
in the weather department.
Where is Nicholas now?
Yeah, we are tracking in Nicholas we
have the 4:00 AM update for you will
get another one here as we head toward
the top of the hour heading toward at
7:00 o'clock here here this morning.
But as a four AM the 70 mile per
hour winds north and northeast is
the movement with now Tropical Storm
Nicholas as we just mentioned it came
on shore as a category one hurricane a
little bit to earlier here this winter
on one o'clock or so this morning.
And you see those gusts with those winds
still up over 80 mph with the 4:00 AM update.
So you see it's going to be
moving away from Houston.
It's still going to be a big big rainmaker.
It will continue to weaken
as it's moved inland now,
but we are talking about to multi
inch rains up over ten inches,
perhaps in some areas and those winds
will still be gusting as well with the
circulation around that in Houston right now,
39 mile per hour.
Wind gusts 42 there you see along
the coast and heading down toward
Galveston looking at a 47 mile per hour.
Wind gusts there right now so
we'll continue to see those winds
and the very heavy rain.
You see what it looks like with
those heavier bands of showers.
Welcome that still out in the Gulf,
but those are going to be moving onshore,
especially into Louisiana
getting up towards Lake Charles.
It looks like the heavy rain is
going to be moving away from.
As we go through the morning
hours heading into the afternoon,
but still plenty of heavy rain
as we look at the track of that,
it's going to move a little more
due E as we head later into today
and early tomorrow,
but still dumping lots of heavy rain
along the Gulf Coast there and across
the Louisiana and Mississippi here as
we head toward Wednesday on into Thursday.
Perhaps we're still going to be
dealing with that total flash
flood watches remain in effect.
Will have 10 inches plus of rain
in some areas,
and you see that stretches from Houston,
Galveston,
right along the Gulf Coast of Louisiana
all the way over toward New Orleans
with those flash flood watches in effect,
and will take a closer look
at the rainfall forecast.
For those areas,
exactly what they don't need
to see along the Gulf Coast,
as you know of Louisiana still cleaning
up from Ida just a couple of weeks ago.
So more heavy rain expected there
and that will continue to aggravate
the flooding issues.
Along the Louisiana coast especially,
yeah, southern part of Louisiana.
Now we do have a team down along
the Gulf Coast. There in Galveston.
Jason whitely. You're down there.
What can you tell us right now?
Greg, good morning to the Sun still has
not risen down here along Seawall Blvd.
We're at 32nd and seawall little farther
down the island in the city of Galveston.
Let's give you a look
out here at Seawall Blvd,
though it's interesting there,
you can still see some sea spray.
A little rain still coming in offshore,
but you know the wind is so strong here
in the six o'clock hour that it is dried.
A lot of Seawall Blvd that's just hard
to imagine because a few hours ago we
kept hearing our doors in our window
here in the second story of this hotel.
Just getting pummeled in the door,
just you know,
kind of bouncing back and forth as
the the rain kind of moved ashore
to give you an idea of just kind of,
you know how much this really impacted
the area down here we're still seeing
off in the distance some spots
where the Transformers are glowing
where wind is knocking down trees,
trees or knocking down power lines.
That's kind of the big threat as
we move into the daylight hours
here on Tuesday morning.
The center of the circulation you
were talking about a few moments ago.
Greg starting to move over towards
the downtown city center of Houston.
That's an issue.
Even though there's not a lot of rain,
it's bringing to the downtown city
center of Houston is bringing the
strongest winds and the strongest
winds are likely going to be taking
out some power lines about 5:30 or so.
I was checking these CenterPoint
Energy electricity outage tracker
380,000 so customers without power,
then about 20 minutes ago is 400 and 1000.
A few minutes ago before we went.
On 400 and 4000 customers without so
the number of people losing electricity
is climbing at this hour in Houston
and to explain kind of how much this
storm really kind of is hugging the coast.
The Texas Gulf Coast here.
The Katy area got less than an inch of rain.
As you move towards the coast
here League City,
which is along 45 near NASA and
you know Johnson Space Center there
it got 7 inches of rain and down
in the Galveston area.
There they're still trying to tally that up,
but we understand it was clearly
in the double digits here,
so that's that's clearly an
impact of what we saw down here.
And you know what Greg?
We talked to some people last
night and again this morning.
We can tell that there are
a number of businesses.
Still planning to reopen,
especially since,
at least for now they have
power to shore up back to you,
at least for now.
Jason, thank you for that reporting.
You know what we've seen a lot of
new video coming in overnight.
This is from Surfside Beach where
the storm surge calls flooding
Cleo Green in our WFA newsroom
with some of those images coming
in through social media.
Cleo, what're you seeing?
Yeah tashara and as Jason had mentioned,
power is a big issue. This morning.
Our sister station K to you saying
that they are tracking more than
400,000 customer power outages across
Southeast Texas right now. Most of them.
Are in the Houston area and they want to
know where are people being affected so
they sent that message out on Twitter.
Back to my Twitter friend this morning.
Reed timmer.
He calls himself an extreme meteorologist.
He's a storm tracer for AccuWeather.
And he started his journey last
night in Matagorda County.
Alright, this is the area where
Nicholas first made landfall.
His caption here saying big
wind gusting over 70 mph.
Here's another tweet from him showing
us that storm surge near Surfside Beach.
It does not look good.
As Greg and said yesterday,
this is going to be a rainmaker,
as you can see flooding a huge
issue this morning.
All right, Matt,
he's reporter for our sister
station KO to you and that this
video is very interesting.
If we could take it full and
take a closer look here,
he says this Gulf freeway
overpasses lined with empty cars.
It's one of the many methods that
Houston area residents have learned to
use to avoid waking up to a flooded car.
Alright,
Mark,
I'm going to end here because Gavelston
is actually trending on social media.
This morning and here's the reason
why I can't make this stuff up.
Someone was walking along Galveston Beach
dressed as Michael Myers and he was arrested.
So go,
go figure.
Oh boy, thank you for all those updates.
You know you've been
working hard this morning.
We did bring in some back up this
morning to help track Hurricane Nichols.
We've got Kyle Roberts and keeping
an eye on the impact of Nicholas.
We will check in with him
about 6:20 this morning.
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