By Jordan Root, Meteorologist
March 7,2015; 10:24PM,EST
After turning dry and tranquil for most of the weekend, a new storm is set to emerge along the Gulf Coast as the weekend winds down and the new week arrives.
Feeding off the water from the Gulf, the storm will pack plenty of moisture as it tracks through the western Gulf Coast states.
Steady rain will begin on Sunday and will become heavier into Sunday night from Brownsville, Texas, to Houston and will carry over into Monday for much of southern and eastern Texas.
Other cities that could get a soaking rainfall Monday into Tuesday as this storm expands eastward include Shreveport, New Orleans and Baton Rouge, Louisiana; and Jackson, Mississippi.
A thick cloud cover along with the rain will put a cap on temperatures and will keep daily highs 5 to 15 degrees below normal.
For those heading to work early in the week and needing to go outside, an umbrella will certainly be useful to help stay dry.
Areas along the coast could receive a general 1 to 2 inches of rainfall through the early part of the week, although isolated higher amounts cannot be ruled out. That is especially true in Texas.
There is some concern that the rain could become heavy enough to cause isolated flooding in low-lying and poor drainage areas.
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"In some areas, rainfall amounts will be more than the ground can absorb and runoff will cause some flooding," said AccuWeather.com Meteorologist Mike Doll.
Motorists are urged to avoid areas of high water and to find alternative route in their travels if they do come across high water.
While the flood risk will be mainly localized, this may be a situation where the widespread benefits of the rain outweigh the risks.
"Many locations in the western Gulf states have only had one-quarter to one-third of their normal rainfall since Feb. 1, so the rainfall will be beneficial," said Doll.
A Dry February for Many
Although areas facing extreme and exception drought across north-central Texas will likely miss out on the steadiest rain, areas in southern Texas to the southern portions of Louisiana and Mississippi will get some relief.
Southwestern Alabama and the western Florida Panhandle, where a moderate drought is underway, will welcome some rain on Tuesday as the storm departs Texas.
The main core of the storm will take off towards the southern Appalachians and mid-Atlantic on Tuesday, bringing a soggy day to Knoxville, Tennessee; Charleston, West Virginia; and Washington, D.C.
Another storm during the middle and latter part of next week will spread more rain and drought relief across the central Gulf Coast and Southeast.
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