Thunderstorms and extreme heat continue in southeast Texas as Beryl recovery continues

More than a million Texas households are still without power, with more storms and triple-digit temperatures on the way.

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00:00still looking at many outages here throughout Harris County, especially

00:03Brazoria County off toward the south, over 60% of the county without power.

00:07So that's where the majority of those 1.2 million customers without power are

00:14kind of in that 8 to 9 county zone over far eastern Texas. And there were the

00:18downpours again a couple of hours ago. There were some high rainfall rates

00:22even had a brief severe thunderstorm warning there east of Beaumont. But

00:25most of the activity now as it started to again wind down with the exception

00:30of areas toward Victoria off to the south and the west, looking at some

00:34heavy rain there. And we do have some minor river flooding being experienced,

00:37but nothing major at this point. As we go through time, we will see some

00:41additional downpours. Definitely a lot of moisture. That's gonna be the

00:45continued theme here along the Gulf Coast. The next couple of days, you can

00:48see those lines working their way from the Gulf of Mexico toward coastal Texas.

00:53So there's your supplier of the moisture. And in addition to that, we're

00:57also gonna be talking about again some very high humidity temperatures

01:00climbing up into the 80s. So even though it will be a little bit below the

01:03historical average in terms of temperature, look at the Accuweather

01:07real field temperature, and this is what you need to prep for here. Friday

01:10afternoon, those values can exceed 105 to even 110 degrees. And even as we

01:17work our way into Saturday, we'll see more moisture in place along with high

01:21humidity. The potential, at least at a couple of areas, could see an

01:24additional heavy thunderstorm.