System brewing in Gulf threatens Texas, La.
A storm is picking up strength this morning in the Gulf of Mexico, taking aim at areas in the South still recovering from deadly flooding.
The National Hurricane Center says a broad area of low pressure near the Yucatan Peninsula could brew nasty weather along the Texas and Louisiana coasts and inland Monday night and Tuesday.
The hurricane center said the system could develop into a tropical system and become Tropical Storm Bill as soon as today.
A hurricane hunter plane checked it Sunday afternoon and another will go Monday morning.
The hurricane center put the chances that the low will develop into a tropical storm at 80 percent.
But spokesman Dennis Feltgen says that whether the system develops into a named storm or not, it's likely to slam into the middle and upper Texas coast and west Louisiana with at least 4 to 6 inches of rain and 40-mph winds. Parts of Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas are at the greatest risk of flooding.
He says that includes parts of Texas that were flooded only weeks ago.
On Sunday heavy rains soaked San Antonio ahead of the storm's arrival.