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Hurricane Delta Continues Toward Louisiana
October 7, 2020
THIS STORY IS OUTDATED. SEE NORTHESCAMBIA.COM FOR THE LATEST REPORT.
The forecast track for Hurricane Delta continues to move to the west as winds in the storm have increased slightly to 90 mph.
Northwest Florida, south Alabama and even New Orleans are now outside the cone. A hurricane watch is in effect for much of the Louisiana coast, with landfall expected sometime by Friday night.
The National Weather Service of Mobile is forecasting potential local impacts in Escambia County to include 1-3 inches of rain, gusts up to 20 mph, high risk of rip currents, high surf, minor coastal flooding and the possibility of isolated tornados Friday evening through Saturday morning.
“Escambia County is continuing to prepare for Hurricane Delta as though the storm is coming our area,” Emergency Manager Eric Gilmore said. “We are encouraging residents to prepare their storm kits and finalize their storm plans in the event that the track shifts eastward.”
Local officials are encouraging residents to check storm drains and ditches near their homes for possible blockages due to Sally debris. There is a small chance of isolated tornadoes.
While track could moves slightly back to the east, forecasters say that is very unlikely. Unlike Sally, Hurricane Delta has clear steering factors in place.
Hurricane Delta made its first landfall Wednesday morning on the Yucatan Peninsula.
The latest information on the Hurricane Delta is in the graphics on this page.
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5 Responses to “Hurricane Delta Continues Toward Louisiana”
I have to agree with hurricanes being unpredictable. Have you ever seen the prediction models of any hurricane? It looks like a spider spun a web! That’s because there is no way to actually predict the path, since there are so many factors that go into where they are going. Water temperature, atmospheric conditions, etc, all come into play in trying to determine the patch and strength of a storm.
It is not an exact science.
Valid points brought up regarding this article. It continues to baffle me that they cannot predict a path from one day to the next or at times the path changes within hours but there are annual predictions for the season.
i think they did a great job with sally. people are complaining because they did not stay up with the updates. do not take your eyes off the storm until it makes landfall. delta is supposed to hit way west of us but who knows. do not relax your guard., keep up with the updates, weather changes, as soon as they know they let us know. they do not control the weather they just do their best to predict it.
@James You obviously do not know anything about hurricanes if you think the “global warmer pushers” botched the forecast. I am a native of Florida and can tell you from experience hurricanes are extremely hard to predict. There are many many factors that can effect the movement, speed, size and strength of a hurricane. They can change direction surprisingly fast and are in fact highly unpredictable.
Take Delta for example it set a record for how fast it jumped from a tropical storm to a CAT 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 145mph.There were no other storms that set a precedent for doing that so how could it be predicted?
Do some actual research on hurricanes before posting your conspiracy theories because those of us that have lived with hurricanes will be quick to correct you.
At this point I cannot trust the “global warming pusher” national weather services after they botched Sally’s path. They absolutely fumbled and it cost people their lives.