2020 Atlantic Hurricane Season Running Thread

WWL had not gone to live hurricane coverage as of last night. I hope that didn’t go away with all the radio budget cuts.

Update: They’re live now. WWL - News.Talk.Sports. - LISTEN LIVE | RADIO.COM

 

Marco is a hurricane.

 

I'm curious to see what Cuba does to Laura, but it almost looks the center could actually be just off the southern coast.

 

The best thing that could happen for the Gulf Coast is Laura to roll up the center of Cuba and lose steam. If it totally collapses going through the mountains, it seems it would be tough to reform.

 

Don't bet on that. This is 2020.

 

Laura coming in right on Marco is a good thing. The area will already be predisastered.

 

Welp, so much for Marco. A little rain and that's it.

But Laura is taking aim at the mouth of the Sabine and looks more and more like Rita every day.

 

Laura is officially a hurricane and expected to be a Cat 3 when it hits.

In addition to the fierce winds, the hurricane is expected to bring a huge storm surge of Gulf sea water ashore, forecasters warned, potentially as high as 11 feet near the Texas/Louisiana border. On top of that, up to 15 inches of rain could fall in some spots in Louisiana.

The Atlantic hurricane season has been a record-breaker. Laura is the earliest L-named storm in the Atlantic Basin, breaking a record held by Luis, which formed Aug. 29, 1995. This season has had 13 named storms, which is well above-normal activity.

 

Marco, much like the politician, turned out to be nothing but hot air and a bag of wind once he got anywhere close to being worthy of importance.

 

Welp, this thing looks like it's going to be an absolute monster now. Ugh.

Hurricane Laura could bring "life-threatening storm surge" - live updates

 

Watch yourself if you are in this area.

Laura will "rapidly strengthen to a Category 4 hurricane" as it barrels toward the Upper Texas and southwest Louisiana coasts Wednesday evening. The storm has already intensified a "remarkable" amount in the past 24 hours, the storm center says.
Laura is growing in size, too. "Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 70 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 175 miles," forecasters said.
The storm, moving northwest at 15 mph, was last spotted 315 miles south-southeast of Lake Charles, Louisiana and 335 miles southeast of Galveston, Texas, as of 4 a.m. CDT Wednesday.

 

It's been obvious for the last day or so this was going to be a major. Hot gulf. No wind shear. Organized storm. Good luck everyone.