Hurricane Center monitoring pressure area off Louisiana coast

Published 1:46 pm Sunday, July 5, 2020

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The National Hurricane Center is monitoring a small low pressure area off the southeast Louisiana coast.

According to the National Weather Service, while it only has a low 20 percent chance for development in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico Sunday and Monday, the threat increases to a medium 40 percent chance off the southeast U.S. coast later this week.

Warning Coordination Meteorologist Roger Erickson the system poses no threat for Southeast Texas.