• Hurricane Zeta makes landfall in Louisiana

    Hurricane Zeta makes landfall in Louisiana

    Oct 28, 2020 09:56 PM EDT

    ... in the western Florida Panhandle.Hurricane warnings stretched from Morgan City, Louisiana, to the Alabama/Mississippi state line, including Lake Pontchartrain and metropolitan New Orleans. Tropical storm warnings were issued for a large swath of the South, from Louisiana and Mississippi into Alabama and Georgia, including all of the Atlanta ...

  • Hurricane Zeta approaches Louisiana

    Hurricane Zeta approaches Louisiana

    Oct 28, 2020 03:34 PM EDT

    ... mouth of the Mississippi River. Hurricane warnings stretched from Morgan City, Louisiana to the Alabama/Mississippi state line, including Lake Pontchartrain and metropolitan New Orleans. Tropical storm warnings were in effect for the western Florida Panhandle, forcing early-voting sites to close for hours in three counties where Republicans dominate ...

  • After making landfall in Mexico, Zeta headed for Louisiana

    After making landfall in Mexico, Zeta headed for Louisiana

    Oct 27, 2020 12:35 PM EDT

    ... running out of assigned names. Zeta is the furthest into the Greek alphabet the Atlantic season has gone. There was also a Tropical Storm Zeta in 2005, but that year had 28 storms because meteorologists later went back and found they missed one, which then became an "unnamed named storm."

  • Hurricane Delta: Another blow to storm-battered Gulf Coast

    Hurricane Delta: Another blow to storm-battered Gulf Coast

    Oct 10, 2020 09:25 PM EDT

    ... know it's possible with this. So that's really the big concern is those communities right there by the water that were prone to storm surge to begin with was they were going to get anywhere from 8 to 11 feet of storm surge into their homes.  Hari Sreenivasan ...

  • Delta adds insult to injury in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana

    Delta adds insult to injury in hurricane-ravaged Louisiana

    Oct 10, 2020 03:18 PM EDT

    ... tropical storm. Forecasters said remnants could spawn tornadoes in Tennessee Valley into Sunday, and flash floods could hit the southern Appalachians. Delta, the 25th named storm of an unprecedented Atlantic hurricane season, is the first Greek-alphabet-named hurricane to hit the continental U.S., and the 10th named storm ...

  • Hurricane Delta could bring 'inundation' to Louisiana coast

    Hurricane Delta could bring 'inundation' to Louisiana coast

    Oct 09, 2020 10:55 PM EDT

    ... big rainfall totals, some areas getting six to 10 inches of rain, but, because it's moving fast, you will start seeing some of those tropical-storm-force winds impact much of Louisiana, Alexandria, up to Monroe, and eventually some of those winds even getting into Northern Mississippi. Judy Woodruff ...

  • 'Sheer anxiety': Louisiana braces itself for Hurricane Delta

    'Sheer anxiety': Louisiana braces itself for Hurricane Delta

    Oct 08, 2020 01:17 PM EDT

    ... New Orleans Emergency Director Collin Arnold said. Along with getting hit by Hurricane Laura and escaping Hurricane Sally, Louisiana saw heavy flooding June 7 from Tropical Storm Cristobal. Tropical Storm Beta prompted tropical storm warnings in mid-September as it slowly crawled up the northeast Texas coast.Tropical Storm Marco ...

  • Hurricane Delta makes landfall in Mexico, toppling trees

    Hurricane Delta makes landfall in Mexico, toppling trees

    Oct 07, 2020 02:54 PM EDT

    ... the staff had made them comfortable and seemed well prepared. The family, which lives in Miami, had been in Cancun a week and already went through Tropical Storm Gamma, which soaked the area over the weekend. “We’ve practically lived in storms during our stay here in Cancun,” Avila said.

  • Hurricane Delta now Category 2, roars at Mexico's Yucatan

    Hurricane Delta now Category 2, roars at Mexico's Yucatan

    Oct 06, 2020 01:52 PM EDT

    ... coast. As Delta shifted west on Monday, Cuba withdrew a hurricane warning for its western province of Pinar del Rio and replaced it with a tropical storm warning. There was also a tropical storm warning for the Cayman Islands including Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. The immediate worst impacts of ...

  • News Wrap: NYC schools in coronavirus hot spots to close

    News Wrap: NYC schools in coronavirus hot spots to close

    Oct 05, 2020 10:30 PM EDT

    ... 10 percent of the world's population may have been infected so far. That includes 7.4 million confirmed cases here in the U.S. Tropical Storm Delta formed over the Caribbean today, heading for the U.S. Gulf Coast. It's on track to hit Western Cuba as a ...