We have never seen anything quite like this before, and it appears that this disaster will be significantly worse than the experts were originally anticipating.
The remnants of Hurricane Polo are about to merge with the remnants of Hurricane Odalys and an upper level low that will be funneling massive amounts of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico to form “a new, hybrid storm” which will be very dangerous…
A soggy, potentially dangerous week is ahead for a “huge” section of the central United States, forecasters warned, as the remnants of Hurricane Polo interact with a separate, sprawling weather system to bring days of rain and possible flooding.
“As these features combine into a new, hybrid storm, the influx of moisture spreading across the central United States will pose the risk for flash flooding,” AccuWeather meteorologist Alyssa Glenny said.
The National Weather Service explained that tropical moisture from the remnants of Hurricane Odalys and Hurricane Polo will surge over the Southwest into the central U.S. this week with several days of heavy to excessive rainfall, which may bring limited to “considerable” flooding. The threat area is “huge,” the weather service said in an online forecast.
This wasn’t supposed to happen.
But it is happening.