Important Takeaways:

• One million coastal residents are under severe weather warning as Texas braces for Tropic storm Harold that is due to hit land today
• Tropical Storm Harold is set to batter Texas today, placing one million coastal residents under a severe weather warning.
• The tropical depression formed in the Gulf of Mexico overnight and is now bearing down on the Lone Star State, the National Hurricane Center said early Tuesday.
• The storm, brewing east-southeast of Port Mansfield, is already packing maximum sustained winds of 45 mph, the Miami-based forecaster said, with its strength expected to increase by the time it makes land.
• Texas residents are warned that Harold is set to arrive inland by noon Tuesday, as the storm warning was put in place in readiness at 1am this morning.
• It comes as rescue crews work to dig roads, buildings and care home residents out of the mud across a wide swathe of south-western US desert as Storm Hilary – the first tropical storm to hit Southern California in 84 years – heads north, prompting flood watches and warnings in half a dozen states.

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