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Delta was also the record-tying fourth named storm to hit Louisiana in 2020, tying the record set in 2002; this record was surpassed by Hurricane Zeta later in the month. [ 30 ] [ 88 ] [ 89 ] The 2020 season was the second (along with 2005) in which an alphabetic list of 21 storm names had been exhausted, necessitating use of the Greek alphabet ...
October 6, 2020 at 1:55 PM The National Hurricane Center forecasts that the Delta storm system will make landfall in the United States late this week as a hurricane.
The Category 3 storm crashed onshore Friday in southwestern Louisiana, compounding misery along a path of destruction left by Hurricane Laura weeks earlier.
Delta, a former Category 4 hurricane in the Caribbean and then a major hurricane at Category 3 force later on as it churned across the Gulf of Mexico, became a tropical depression by Saturday ...
Delta weakened over land, but re-intensified over the Gulf of Mexico, reaching a secondary peak of 120 mph (195 km/h) and a minimum pressure of 953 mbar (28.1 inHg) on October 9. Later that day, unfavorable conditions caused the hurricane to weaken, and Delta made its final landfall near Creole, Louisiana, with winds of 100 mph (160 km/h). The ...
Heavy rain bands and tropical-storm-force winds lashed the Gulf Coast on Friday as Hurricane Delta, chugging along at 14 mph, made its final approach. Delta's impacts along the Gulf Coast grew ...
2020 Hurricane: 77 $19.1 billion Hurricane Laura: Lesser Antilles, Greater Antilles, The Bahamas, Gulf Coast of the United States, Midwestern United States, Eastern United States: Tied with the 1856 Last Island hurricane as the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the state of Louisiana, in terms of maximum sustained winds. [14] [18] 2020 ...
The Category 2 storm was forecast to bring a life-threatening storm surge that would raise water levels.