Hurricane Simon weakens to Category 2
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The morning after a hurricane is almost always a sunny day. And Oct. 10, the day after Hurricane Isaias blew through Destin as a Category 2 hurricane, was no different. The sun was out, and there was a bit of a cool breeze, and people went to work around the not-so-sleepy fishing village of Destin.
The disturbance, located a few hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands, was producing a large but disorganized area of showers and thunderstorms. The storms extended into the western Cabo Verde Islands, National Hurricane Center forecaster Andrew Hagen said. There is currently no threat to Louisiana.
Footage has been shared on social media showing the devastation caused by Isaias, which crashed into the Florida coast as a Category 2 hurricane on Friday, though it has since weakened to a post-tropical cyclone according to the National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Hurricane Simon's moisture could fuel heavy rainfall and flash flooding risks in West Texas, while Houston has separate shower chances.
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A not-so-dry season ahead.
A more than 1,000-mile stretch across parts of the Plains and the Midwest is at risk of severe thunderstorms as moisture from Hurricane Simon, which is churning off the coast of western Mexico, is