(CBN) – After lashing the central Gulf Coast with tropical downpours, tropical-storm-force winds and coastal flooding over the weekend, Cristobal will race northward along the Mississippi Valley and into Great Lakes into the middle of the week.
AccuWeather Meteorologist Tyler Roys said the storm will interact with the cold front moving across the Plains, allowing it to pick up speed. Cristobal made landfall in the southeastern part of Louisiana at 5 p.m. CDT on Sunday.
The storm has gradually lost intensity, weakening to a tropical depression early Monday morning. “Even though Cristobal will lose its tightly wound wind field, as it transitions to a rainstorm, strong winds can still occur over a broad area,” according to AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alex Sosnowski.
This will be due in part to Cristobal’s circulation getting caught up in a non-tropical storm set to eject out of the Rockies early this week. As these system’s interact and perhaps merge, winds will become strong over a broad area of the Midwest and Great Lakes region. READ MORE
