Experts weigh in on Beryl; could it bring Texas much-needed rainfall?

AUSTIN, Texas — As Hurricane Beryl approaches Texas in the coming hours, meteorologists and environmentalists are hoping this could help the drought and low lake levels in Central Texas.

"We're going to be relying on something from the Gulf of Mexico, something tropical, to help put a lot of rainfall in the bucket and get the lake levels to rise," said CBS Austin Meteorologist, Avery Tomasco.

For months now, Central Texas meteorologists have warned us about Lake Travis's low water levels.

Last month, Lake Travis was about 4.5 feet tall, but that's only about 40% full.

"Odds are we're looking at one of our hottest summers in history," said Tomasco.

As a result of the Texas heat, the lake was losing about an inch every 5-6 days in June-- that increases the hotter and windier it gets, according to the LCRA.

"We're always hopeful that we can get some much-needed rainfall in the areas that we need rain," said Warning Coordination Meteorologist with the National Weather Service, Paul Yura.

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Yura said Beryl could help, but not as much as anticipated.

"It looks like [Beryl] is not going to be a drought-buster, for especially the areas west of Austin, where we really need to build up some of that water and the aquifer and also the highland," said Yura.

Yura added the water will fall in the opposite direction of where Central Texas needs it to help with the drought.

But, it's still early in the year and Yura is hopeful for future rain-pours to help.

"Historically it hasn't even needed to be a big hurricane, we can just have a tropical depression or even a weaker tropical storm," said Yura, "Hopefully later in the season can go into the Hill Country and produce a lot of rainfall like we need."