FOG BLOG WEATHER LOG: TROPICAL STORM NICHOLAS DRENCHES LOUISIANNA AFTER HITTING TEXAS!

Nicholas drenches Louisiana with torrential rainfall after striking Texas.....Southern Louisiana, including New Orleans, could see 5 to 10 inches of rain and ‘life-threatening’ flooding.....Nicholas intensified and made landfall early Tuesday as a Category 1 hurricane southwest of Galveston, Tex., lashing the coastline with damaging winds, a dangerous storm surge and torrential downpours that have caused significant flooding. The storm’s winds, which gusted up to 95 mph along the middle-Texas coast, cut power to nearly 500,000 customers in the state, including more than 100,000 in Harris County, home to Houston.

Late Tuesday, the storm’s wrath was far from spent. As Nicholas lumbered toward Louisiana as a tropical storm, the National Weather Service warned of “areas of life-threatening flash and urban flooding” in central and southern Louisiana, and far southern Mississippi and Alabama through late this week.