Tropical Storm Lee's Friday Pop Up In The Gulf Of Mexico Is Bringing No Rain To Texas

My attention this Friday afternoon was diverted from monitoring the temperature to hunting for the missing Elsie Hotpepper.

So, it came as a shock to me to do my late afternoon news check to discover that today a bad tropical storm suddenly appeared in the Gulf of Mexico.

This new bad tropical storm is named Lee.

Tropical Storm Lee is currently about 200 miles southeast of Cameron, Louisiana, heading northwest at a very slow 2 mph. The center of Lee is expected to hit Louisiana over the weekend.

The governors of Louisiana and Mississippi declared states of emergency in coastal counties. New Orleans is, again, under a declared state of emergency.

Tropical storm warnings were issued from Mississippi to Texas, with flash flood warnings along the Alabama coast and into the Florida panhandle.

Will Tropical Storm Lee bring some wetness to Texas?

Well, not according to the following paragraph....

The water-logged storm is tantalizingly close to Texas but still too far away to alleviate the state's worst drought since the 1950s. If the center moves mostly into Louisiana, as expected, winds on its west side will blow from land to open water and reduce the chance of rain in Texas, National Weather Service meteorologist Dennis Cavanaugh in Fort Worth said. The hot, dry winds could spur fire danger across the state.

Great. We get no wet from Tropical Storm Lee, but we do get more wildfire potential.