Great News For Louisiana Residents Concerning Tropical Storm Sara In Gulf

LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA: We have the latest details on the potential hurricane brewing in the Caribbean and what that means for Louisiana residents who live on the Gulf Coast.

We reported yesterday that meteorologists were saying that the signal of the storm forming in the Caribbean looked like it was going to produce a powerful hurricane. However, it looks like we have a change in the models that will favor Louisiana residents.

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Meteorologist Rob Perillo loves the GRAF model and thinks it's currently one of the most accurate storm models. It shows Sara becoming a tropical storm and then stalling over Honduras and the Yucatan.  While this is terrible news for that region, for Louisiana residents it couldn't be better.

With Sara stalling over land mass it will weaken the storm severely weaken and disorganize the storm. Meteorologist Zack Fradella even thinks that once what's left of the storm reaches the Gulf it will be so decimated that it will only be a rain event whenever it ends up going.

Early storm models yesterday showed that Sara could hit open Gulf water with little land interaction that would allow it to strengthen to a powerful hurricane before possibly heading to Florida.  What a difference a day makes with more formation on the storm that models can lock on to.

The new storm track released by the National Hurricane Center looks like the storm will make impact somewhere along the Texas or Louisiana Gulf Coast, but as Zack said above it should only be a rain event, not a powerful hurricane.

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