HOUSTON—Tropical Storm Beta slowly crawled toward the shores of Texas and Louisiana on Sunday, stirring worries that it could bring heavy rain, flooding and storm surge to a storm-weary stretch of the Gulf Coast.
Beta was one of three named storms whirling in the Atlantic basin during an exceptionally busy hurricane season. If the system makes landfall in Texas—which forecasters predict it will late Monday or early Tuesday—it would be the ninth named storm to make landfall in the continental United States in 2020. That would tie a record set in 1916, according to Colorado State hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach.
