Month: October 2020

By WRAL Severe Weather Center Raleigh, N.C. — Delta strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane on Tuesday, making it the ninth hurricane of the season. The storm is also the 25th named storm of the season. The storm is expected to intensify as it moves over warmer water and make landfall along the Gulf Coast as a major hurricane, according to WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner. When that happens, Delta will be the record 10th storm…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — A newly formed tropical system in the Caribbean Sea strengthened into Hurricane Delta on Monday evening, according to the National Hurricane Center. Hurricane Delta currently has maximum sustained winds of 75 miles per hour as it moves into the Gulf of Mexico. The forecast shows Delta moving into the Gulf of Mexico around Tuesday night or Wednesday. As of the 8 p.m. update, Hurricane Delta is moving 8 mph west-northwest. Delta…

By WRAL Severe Weather Center Raleigh, N.C. — Tropical Storm Delta formed Monday and could bring rain to North Carolina later this week. Tropical Depression 26 formed south of Jamaica on Sunday night. On Monday, it became a tropical storm. According to WRAL meteorologist Elizabeth Gardner, the storm is forecast to strengthen into a hurricane over the next three days. Delta is expected to become a Cat. 1 hurricane on Wednesday and is likely to…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — A newly formed tropical system in the Caribbean Sea strengthened into Tropical Storm Delta on Monday morning, according to the National Hurricane Center. Tropical Storm Delta currently has maximum sustained winds of 40 miles per hour, but those are expected to increase as it moves into the Gulf of Mexico. The forecast shows Delta moving into the Gulf of Mexico around Tuesday night or Wednesday. Around that same time, it is…

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — A newly formed tropical depression in the Caribbean Sea could hit Louisiana as a hurricane later this week, according to the National Hurricane Center. Tropical Depression 26 formed Sunday night just south of Jamaica. It currently has sustained winds of 35 miles per hour. The system is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm later Monday. At that point, it would become Tropical Storm Delta. The forecast shows Delta moving into…

Tropical Depression 26 formed in the Caribbean Sea on Sunday night with maximum sustained winds of 35 mph. The system is expected to become Tropical Storm Delta on Monday and will likely approach the northern Gulf Coast later this week as a hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center. Tropical Depression 26 is currently 75 miles south-southwest of Kingston, Jamaica. The system itself moving west-northwest at 9 mph with maximum gusts of 45 mph. We…

MEXICO CITY — At least 6 people died and thousands were evacuated in southeastern Mexico after Tropical Storm Gamma lashed the Yucatan Peninsula’s resort-studded coast with near-hurricane force winds and drenched Tabasco and Chiapas states, authorities said Sunday. Mexico’s civil defense agency said in a statement that four of the deaths, including two children, were in Chiapas, where a landslide on a mountainous slope buried their home. The other two deaths were in Tabasco state,…