Hurricane Irma Turning West Is A Turn For The Worse In Texas

HOUSTON, TX — On Sunday afternoon it appeared Hurricane Irma would steer north and east, and then eventually fizzle away in the Atlantic Ocean. By Monday morning she had taken a turn to the west and southwest. There's a harrowing possibility it could move into the Gulf of Mexico and do the unthinkable, which is to pound an already weakened Texas Coast.

The National Hurricane Center still doesn't have a clear projection path for Irma, but its cone of projection has it steering into the Caribbean Sea and into the Gulf.

On the forecast track, the center of Irma will move near or over portions of the northern Leeward Islands Tuesday night and early Wednesday. A Hurricane Warning continues for Antigua, Barbuda, Anguilla, Montserrat, St. Kitts, Nevis, Saba, St. Eustatius, Sint Maarten, Saint Martin and Saint Barthelemy.

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A Hurricane Watch continues for Guadeloupe, the British Virgin Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Vieques and Culebra.

Texas certainly can't handle Irma, which is currently a Category 3 storm, after the devastation a week ago by Hurricane Harvey. Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain in several areas around Houston and then crippled Southeast Texas and the Golden Triangle.

Photos via the National Hurricane Center