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The 2020 hurricane season has seen the most landfalling tropical cyclones in a single season with 5 total storms. In terms of wind speed , Hurricane Ida , Hurricane Laura , and the 1856 Last Island hurricane are the strongest storms to affect the state, each producing maximum sustained winds of 150 mph (240 km/h), equivalent to Category 4 on ...
At 06:00 UTC on October 28, while located about 410 mi (660 km) south of New Orleans, Louisiana, Zeta became a hurricane again. [9] It then began to accelerate, turning towards the northeast because of an approaching upper-level low and associated cold front moving across the Southern Plains while ridging was located off the Southeast Atlantic ...
It was the twelfth named storm, fourth hurricane, and first major hurricane of the extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. It made landfall on August 27, 2020 near Cameron, Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane. Within Louisiana, the storm killed 33 people and caused around $17.5 billion in damage. [1]
As of 11 p.m. ET Wednesday, Francine's center was about 35 miles northwest of New Orleans, the hurricane center said. It was moving northeast at 16 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph.
Zeta, the 27th named storm in a very busy Atlantic season, made landfall as a hurricane just north of the ancient Mayan city of Tulum.
The Category 3 storm crashed onshore Friday in southwestern Louisiana, compounding misery along a path of destruction left by Hurricane Laura weeks earlier.
Hurricane Carmen (1974)- A Category 4 hurricane that took a similar path to Laura in Louisiana. Hurricane Lili (2002) – A Category 4 hurricane that made a similar track and made landfall near the border of Texas/Louisiana. Hurricane Rita (2005) – A Category 5 hurricane that took a similar track and made landfall near the Texas/Louisiana ...
With just a little more than a month to go until the Atlantic hurricane season ends, New Orleans was bracing for what stands to be its first major impact this year from a landfalling hurricane.