Tropical Storm Laura is expected to turn into a hurricane on Tuesday after the rain of a weakened Marco soaked in parts of the Gulf Coast on Monday.
Frame degraded to a tropical depression overdue on Monday night after touching ground around 6 p. m. near the mouth of the Mississippi River, according to the National Hurricane Center. From 23 hours EDT, Marco travels west to nine mph with sustained maximum winds of 35 mph.
Meanwhile, Laura is expected to succeed in the prestige of the hurricane before roaring towards the northwest gulf coast on Wednesday and Thursday. The typhoon moves west-northwest at 20 mph with sustained maximum winds of 65 mph at the end of Monday.
The National Hurricane Center issued warnings of outdated typhoons, hurricanes, and tropical typhoons Monday for parts of the United States—from San Luis Pass Texas to Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and Port Bolivar, Texas, west of Morgan City, Louisiana.
Laura will be much more vital than Marco, meteorologists said.
For the citizens of the Louisiana coast, “they’re really lucky Marco isn’t worse off than him,” Brian McNoldy, a hurricane researcher at the University of Miami, said Monday. “(Marco) comes and goes, and you can put yourself in a position for Laura. This will be the biggest attraction. “
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National Weather Service meteorologist Benjamin Schott said Laura could make landfall like a Category 3 hurricane, with winds of at least 111 mph. It would be the first Category 3 hurricane to hit Louisiana since Rita in 2005.
The National Hurricane Center said Monday that “there is a growing threat of harmful effects from Laura’s waves of typhoons, wind and precipitation from the Texas coast to the north-central Gulf coast from Wednesday. “
The rain bands of the two typhoons can bring a combined total of 2 feet of rain to parts of Louisiana, potentially expanding the typhoon’s tide to more than 10 feet along the coast and pushing the water 30 miles upriver at worst, Schott said.
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards said Monday at a press conference: “We only go to the prom many times. And the existing forecast for Laura is intensely aimed at Louisiana.
State emergencies have been reported in Louisiana and Mississippi, and shelters with more remote camp beds, among other measures for coronavirus infections, have been opened.
August Creppel, leader of United Houma Nation, participated in about 17,000 members of the group in six parishes along the Gulf of Louisiana coast.
“We know that our other people will be affected,” he said. “We just don’t know who yet. “
Sarah Manowitz, manager of four bars in new Orleans’ French Quarter, made sure the windows were closed. She prepared her space and filled her bathroom with water. Manowitz remains on site, depending on a “community of people” watching every other storm.
“We’re all going to help with another percentage of food, percentage of all supplies,” he says.
Although the typhoon has weakened, “wind gusts, heavy rains and persistent coastal flooding of Marco are expected along parts of the Gulf Coast until (Monday) at night,” the Hurricane Center said.
The formula was reduced to tropical typhoon on Sunday night. What’s left of the typhoon is expected to turn west and succeed in Texas as a tropical depression or residual depression zone until Tuesday night.
Laura approached eastern Cuba on Sunday night after killing at least 11 other people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
A tropical typhoon warning has been issued for parts of the Florida Keys as Laura approaches. The Keys can see winds of 39 to 57 mph until Tuesday morning.
Heavy rains will accompany Laura’s strong winds: “From Wednesday to Friday due, Laura is expected to produce five to 10 inches of precipitation, with maximum amounts of 15-inch isopast rainfall in west coast quantities of the US Gulf. But it’s not the first time Near Texas and Louisiana it borders amounts of the Mississippi Valley decline to the north,” the Hurricane Center wrote. “These rains can cause widespread flash flooding and urban flooding, small streams overflowing its banks and the option of minor river flooding in this area. “
“Laura will grow in length on Tuesday and Wednesday, and will most likely be a typhoon larger than average capable of generating a very strong wave of typhoons,” according to meteorologists Bob Henson and Jeff Masters, who write for Yale Climate Connections.
The Atlantic hurricane season broke records. Laura the first typhoon named L in the Atlantic Basin, breaking a record held through Luis, which was formed on August 29, 1995. This season has had thirteen named typhoons, an activity well above normal.
2020 could set a record for peak hurricanes earlier this year, although Laura will also make landfall this week. According to meteorologist Phil Klotzbach, meteorologist at Colorado State University, the largest number of Atlantic-named storms that made landfall in the continental United States in August expired is six, which happened in 1886 and 1916. The continental United States has had five this year: Bertha, Christopher, Fay, Hanna and Isaiah, he said.
Contribute: John Bacon, Rick Jervis, Jordan Culver and Jessica Flores, USA TODAY; Brian Broom, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss. ); Greg Hilburn, The News-Star (Monroe, Louisiana); The Associated Press