Wet storm system to soak Gulf Coast states

Chicago is in for a mostly cloudy week with frequent periods of precipitation as a series of storm systems traverse the nation, but it appears the heaviest rainfall will fall to the south across the Gulf Coast region.
It seems incongruous that a part of the country so heavily flooded by last year’s hurricane rainfall could be heading into drought, but that is exactly the case after a relatively dry summer coupled with this fall’s lack of hurricane activity. That situation could ease this week as low pressure over south Texas heads northeast, bringing the prospect for copious rains to the region.
This same system brought severe weather and flooding to the Southwest Saturday, and heavy rainfall and severe weather to west Texas and southeast New Mexico Sunday.
In Texas, nearly 4 inches of rain soaked Wichita Falls and 65 m.p.h. wind gusts raked Plainview; golf-ball-sized hail pelted Loving, N.M.
--By Steve Kahn, WGN Weather Center Meteorologist