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National Weather Service provides update on Nicholas

Nicholas will continue to weaken as it slowly moves through the Houston area on Tuesday.
This is according to the 10 a.m. update from the National Weather Service in Lake Charles.
Tonight it will slowly turn east and head towards the Beaumont region, before slowing down or even stalling in southwest Louisiana Wednesday into Thursday.
Wind gusts today will be in the 25 to 45 mph range for southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana. A few power outages will be possible. Gusts will be 20 to 30 mph across the remainder of the region.

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NICHOLAS HEADS EAST, BRINGING HEAVY RAIN

Nicholas made landfall overnight in Texas as a Category 1 hurricane and quickly weakened to a tropical storm.
A flash flood warning is in effect through Wednesday afternoon. A coastal flood advisory is currently in place in Vermilion Parish until 7 p.m. on Wednesday.
Nicholas made landfall about 1 a.m. Tuesday near Freeport, Texas, on that state’s central coast.
On Monday, Gov. John Bel Edwards requested a pre-landfall Federal Declaration of Emergency in a letter to President Joe Biden in advance of Nicholas.

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