Flooding rain from Storm Beta. According to NOAA, "In the event that more than twenty-one named tropical cyclones occur in the Atlantic basin in a season, additional storms will take names from the Greek alphabet." (Photo: Bloomberg)
(Bloomberg) — Tropical Storm Beta is flooding Houston as it slows to a crawl along the Gulf Coast, forcing highways to shut and threatening to boost water levels even more before meandering toward Louisiana.
Beta will likely stall for most of Tuesday (Sept. 22), wringing out rain across the region, the National Hurricane Center said. Forecasts are calling for as much as 6 to 12 inches (15 to 30 centimeters) of rain in the middle and upper Texas coast, with some areas getting as much as 20 inches.
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