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Harvey: Unprecedented Flooding Not Over Yet
Harvey has become one of the most devastating storms in the history of the US. People are trapped in attics, people are trapped in cars, and still the rain continues. The main problem is that the storm is incredibly slow moving.
Normally a storm like this would be steered by the winds in high up in the atmosphere, but the winds are weak, so there’s nothing to push it out the way.
Harvey has remained within about 150km from the spot where it first made landfall, and it’s only moving at 5km per hour.
Most people can jog faster than that. With the steering winds being so weak, so far it’s been difficult to predict exactly where this storm will move and when.
Harvey is expected to move in an anti-clockwise motion, leaving the Texas coast on Monday, then moving northwards up the coast and coming on shore again in eastern Texas.
Finally on Wednesday the storm is expected to clear away towards the north, into Arkansas.
However, rain is still forecast for Houston.
