AccuWeather's Bernie Rayno and Jon Porter continue to monitor Hurricane Beryl's track across the Caribbean. Areas from New Orleans to the Florida Panhandle will not be directly impacted by the storm.
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00:00A couple of days ago, it was back on Monday that when we were talking about Barrow, we
00:04cleared Florida and we also cleared the east coast of the United States.
00:09We have another call to make here right now.
00:12That's right, Bernie.
00:13It's very important here at AccuWeather.
00:14We want to tell you where the threat areas are, but also the areas where we're not expecting
00:19direct rain, wind and other impacts.
00:22And that is going to be now New Orleans, Louisiana, eastbound, all the way to the Florida Panhandle.
00:29We had mentioned this is a low risk area here over the last couple of days.
00:32We're now clearing that from direct rain and wind impacts from Barrow.
00:36So again, New Orleans, eastbound, all the way through the Florida Peninsula and up the
00:39east coast of the United States, we're not a very, virtually no risk of direct impacts
00:44in those areas.
00:45We made some tweaks to the AccuWeather eyepath here in the last hour or so, John.
00:50That is correct.
00:51We continue to be concerned about the storm slowing down once it passes the Yucatan Peninsula
00:57of Mexico, emerges into the southern Gulf of Mexico, slows down, and then we're increasingly
01:03concerned about rain and wind impacts across south Texas.
01:07That's a theme that we've been talking about here at AccuWeather ahead of all other sources.
01:11Let's talk about the risk, especially along the Texas coast, pertaining to direct impacts
01:17from Barrow, and that would be wind and rain, John.
01:20That's right.
01:21It would be still several days out.
01:22I want to point that out.
01:23It's Saturday through Tuesday that we have that concern.
01:26This is going to be a different storm.
01:28It's going to be, as we mentioned, a slow-moving storm, likely a strong tropical storm or Category
01:341 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson wind scale across the southern Gulf of Mexico.
01:38We have the probabilities, though, from Corpus Christi to Brownsville of 60 to 80% chance
01:43of rain and wind.
01:44We're talking about the risk for flooding rainfall in that area, and still the risk
01:48of 20 to 40% risk here across parts of the southeast Texas Gulf Coast, Galveston, Houston
01:56area, Port Arthur, in terms of there can be some rain and wind impacts there as well.
02:01As far as the change, John, listen, there really hasn't been much change.
02:04Again, we're clearing that area from New Orleans to Pensacola, but really we've been pretty
02:09steadfast on this graphic over the last few days that we feel pretty confident there's
02:14going to be at least a good probability or a higher probability of at least some impacts
02:20along the lower Texas coast.
02:22That's right, and that's why we've continued to keep the same risk trend there.
02:26This is an exclusive AccuWeather tool to show you that we're not talking about any,
02:30we're not expecting any change to the risk there over the last 24 hours in terms of our
02:33forecast thinking.
02:35The risk level has increased from Brownsville southward, as we've been talking about, and
02:39then the area from New Orleans eastbound, we've joined that to the other areas that
02:43we've cleared from direct impact.
02:44So those have been the changes.
02:46We keep updating this here at AccuWeather, you can get this graphic on AccuWeather.com
02:49as well.
02:50Frequently check back with it so you can get our latest thinking.