Ingrid Continues to Move Towards Mexico

Warm water is providing plenty of fuel to Ingrid in the southern Gulf of Mexico and the second hurricane of the season in the Atlantic Basin continues to become a little stronger with sustained winds of 85 mph.

The center of Ingrid is about 150 miles east of Tampico, Mexico. The worst of Ingrid will largely remain away from land on today, but downpours and rough seas will increase throughout the day in northeast Mexico and South Texas. However, torrential rain and damaging winds will begin to target northern Veracruz and southern Tamaulipas tonight as Ingrid begins to approach east-central Mexico as a Category 1 hurricane.

 Peak wind gusts up to 105 mph, torrential rainfall, and coastal flooding will threaten areas surrounding the landfall area early Monday morning. A landfall near or just north of Tampico, Mexico is expected late tonight or early Monday morning. Life-threatening flash flooding and mudslides will occur across east-central Mexico between Monday and Wednesday as rainfall totals exceed one foot in many areas. In the mountainous areas 20-30 inches of rain is likely with severe flooding and mudslides. Locally heavy rainfall will extend north into southern Texas early next week as well, but this may be largely beneficial to their current drought.

Meanwhile, Humberto remains a tropical rainstorm in the east-central Atlantic. However, Humberto will move into noticeably warmer water once again early next week and has a good chance at regaining tropical characteristics. In fact, it could become a hurricane by the middle of next week. Either way, no impact to land is expected as it crosses into the central Atlantic Ocean through early next week.

Elsewhere, there are no imminent threats for tropical development across the remainder of the basin.