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Impacts from Laura are expected Wednesday through Thursday. NEW ORLEANS — Category 4 Hurricane Laura continued to strengthen on Wednesday. As of 4 PM it now has 145 mph winds. Laura is now forecast to have 150 mph winds at landfall late tonight near the TX/LA state line.  Forecasters expect Laura to be a “catastrophic” Category 4 hurricane before landfall somewhere near the Texas-Louisiana border late Wednesday night. The brunt of the storm will stay…

Local impacts from Laura are expected through Thursday. NEW ORLEANS — The National Hurricane Center says Hurricane Laura has weakened to a Category 3 hurricane with top winds of 120 mph a few hours after making landfall. It’s centered about 30 miles north-northwest of Lake Charles and moving north at 15 mph. Hurricane-force winds and damaging wind gusts are spreading well inland into parts of eastern Texas and western Louisiana. HURRICANE CENTER: Latest Tracks, Models &…

Local impacts from Laura are expected through Thursday. NEW ORLEANS — The National Hurricane Center says Laura has weakened to a Category 2 hurricane as it moves deeper inland over Louisiana.  That’s no longer a major hurricane but it still has extremely dangerous maximum sustained winds of 110mph, nearly five hours after striking the coast and pushing what forecasters called an unsurvivable storm surge miles inland.  Forecasters say it’s centered about 45 miles north-northwest of…

Local impacts from Laura are expected through Thursday. NEW ORLEANS — The National Hurricane Center says Laura remains a hurricane, sustaining top winds of 75 mph as it moves more than 170 miles inland. Laura made landfall at 1 a.m. Thursday near Cameron, a 400-person community about 30 miles east of the Texas border. At landfall, the storm had 150 mph maximum sustained winds, making it the most powerful hurricane to strike the U.S. so…

Local impacts from Laura are expected through Thursday. Heavy rain and isolated tornadoes are the main threats. NEW ORLEANS — The National Hurricane Center says Laura has weakened to a tropical storm, sustaining top winds of 70 mph as it moves into Arkansas Thursday afternoon. Laura made landfall at 1 a.m. Thursday near Cameron, a 400-person community about 30 miles east of the Texas border. At landfall, the storm had 150 mph maximum sustained winds,…

Two areas to watch, but far too soon to know where they will go, if they even develop! NEW ORLEANS — Eye on Tropics: With Laura done, we currently have no named storms in the Atlantic basin. That certainly won’t last forever as we are nearing the peak of the season (September 10) and the NHC is currently tracking two tropical waves in the Atlantic. Models are inconsistent at this time as to their possible…

Hurricane Laura is the first major hurricane of 2020 and could be even stronger before making landfall on the Gulf coast in Louisiana or Texas. CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Hurricane Laura is now a category three hurricane with sustained winds of 115 mph and will continue to strengthen as it moves over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico towards the United States.  As of 8 a.m. Wednesday, August 26, Laura has sustained winds of…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Marco is now a tropical depression. It made landfall earlier this evening near the mouth of the Mississippi River. It will continue to track westward across Louisiana and into Texas.  We continue to track Tropical Storms Laura, which is moving over western Cuba. Laura is expected to emerge over the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday, strengthening to a category 1 hurricane as it remains over the very warm waters of the Gulf of…

Forecasters expect Laura to grow to a major Category 3 hurricane over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico before hitting the U.S. late Wednesday or early Thursday. NEW ORLEANS — Hundreds of thousands of people were ordered to evacuate the Gulf Coast on Tuesday as Laura strengthened into a hurricane that forecasters said could slam into Texas and Louisiana as a major storm with ferocious winds and deadly flooding. More than 385,000 residents…

More than half a million people have been ordered to evacuate the Texas and Louisiana coasts ahead of Hurricane Laura. NEW ORLEANS — In the largest U.S. evacuation of the pandemic, more than half a million people were ordered to flee the Gulf Coast on Tuesday as Laura strengthened into a hurricane that forecasters said could slam Texas and Louisiana with ferocious winds, heavy flooding and the power to push seawater miles inland. More than…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tropical Storm Laura and Hurricane Marco are both heading towards the Gulf of Mexico. They could both impact the Lousiana coats and New Orleans but not at the same time. Marco is about 48 hours ahead of Laura. The real questions arise is how strong will Marco be and will it affect the environment ahead of Laura? The concern is the water temperatures ahead of each are very warm close to 90°….

Marco was expected to be approaching the Louisiana shore Monday afternoon before turning westward toward Texas. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Marco became a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico for most of Sunday but weakened back to a tropical storm as it closed in on the Louisiana coast during the night, while Tropical Storm Laura killed at least 11 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Laura began moving over Cuba late Sunday afternoon, following a…