Laden with rain, tropical storm system Beryl-ing toward Michigan

LANSING — By mid-week, parts of Michigan could feel the remnants of a hurricane that came ashore Monday in Texas, but how far north the system will go remained unclear, forecasters said.

Heavy rains would be the likely impact, with the northern edge of the system potentially reaching south-central Michigan, "but there's not a lot of forecast confidence about how far north it will go," said Ernie Ostuno, a forecaster for the National Weather Service in Grand Rapids.

Hurricane Beryl churned inland on Monday, lashing Texas with strong winds and heavy rain and forcing the closure of oil ports, cancellation of hundreds of flights and leaving nearly 2 million homes and businesses without power, Reuters reported.

Beryl made landfall near Matagorda, Texas early in the day, pounding the coast with dangerous storm surges and heavy rain, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.

The storm swept a destructive path through Jamaica, Grenada, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines last week, killing at least 11 people and toppling buildings and power lines, Reuters reported. In Texas, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said on social media platform X on Monday that preliminary information indicated one person died after a tree fell on a house.

Remnants of the storm were expected to dump 2 to 4 inches of rain on central Indiana, the Indianapolis Star reported.

The storm on Monday was transitioning into an "extra-tropical low pressure" system, or a tropical cyclone, Ostuno said. The forecast trend was that it could come close to the Jackson, Detroit or Lansing areas, he said.

Contact Ken Palmer at kpalmer@lsj.com. Follow him on X @KBPalm_lsj.

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