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Carlos likely to regain hurricane status Monday

Near Yucatan, storms brew for Gulf Coast

The Columbian
Published: June 15, 2015, 12:00am

MIAMI (AP) — Forecasters say Carlos has been downgraded from a brief-lived hurricane to a tropical storm after weakening off Mexico but is expected to regain hurricane status by Monday.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the storm was centered about 65 miles southwest of Acapulco with top sustained winds measured 65 mph Sunday afternoon. The former Category 1 hurricane was moving northwest at about 4 mph with strengthening expected in coming hours.

Carlos on Saturday briefly became the third hurricane of the 2015 eastern Pacific season. Forecasters say it still threatens heavy rains that could cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.

To the east, the hurricane center sayss 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.

Hurricane center spokesman Dennis Feltgen says the low may develop into a tropical system.

But he says that whether it does 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.

He says that includes parts of Texas that were flooded only weeks ago.

He says people should pay attention to the system whether or not it’s given a name.

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