Keep the umbrella close by today as it's a soggy setup throughΒ mid afternoon. Rain chances stay high all day, and we could even mix in a few rumbles of thunder at times. With clouds locked in and rain-cooled air in place, temperatures wonβt move much, topping out in the low to mid 70s at best.
Hurricane Delta made landfall in southwestern Louisiana as a Category 2 storm Friday, compounding misery along a path of destruction left by Hurricane Laura only six weeks earlier.
Delta's landfall this week will be the 10th of the season in the United States. That is the most ever recorded in one season.
The Louisiana coastline is bearing down for its second major hurricane landfall in a little over a month.
Hurricane Delta has re-emerged over the Gulf of Mexico and will likely regain strength before making landfall along the Texas-Louisiana border Friday night.
The staggering scale of Californiaβs wildfires reached another milestone Monday: A single fire surpassed 1 million acres.
It's been over two weeks since the National Hurricane Center last named a storm. That streak will likely end soon.
There will be two full moons this month. Starting with the Harvest Moon on October 1st and ending with a rare Blue Moon on Halloween!
As of 11:20 am, The NOAA Hurricane Hunters recon mission found that Hurricane Delta has strengthened into aΒ Category 4 βmajorβ hurricane with sustained winds of 130 mph and a minimum central pressure of 954 mb.
