Louisiana Watching With A Close Eye As Hurricane Forms In Gulf
LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIAIA: Louisiana residents will be keeping a close eye on the Gulf of Mexico as the National Hurricane Center (NHS) is predicting the formation of a category two hurricane.
The NHS is confident that this disturbance in the Gulf will become our next named storm (Helene).
Gulf weather expert Meteorologist Zack Fradella says that the storm is looking to take an easterly path once it forms:
Fradella also repots that the time of landfall could be around Thursday of this week:
The first track from the NHS indicates they believe the storm will be a category two hurricane at landfall:
Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine is currently traveling N at 6 mph and has maximum sustained winds of 30 mph.
Meteorologist Rob Perillo is reporting that the storm could become a named tropical storm by tomorrow. He also brings up a great point, all storm predictions at this point are just educated guesses. Until the storm forms a well defined eye, the computer models can't grab a hold of storm and give us more accurate predications.
We won't truly know what will happen with this possible tropical storm until sometime after the storm forms an eye. So, there's nothing to worry about at this time for Louisiana residents, however, it's peak hurricane season so anything can happen. We have to keep are eyes peeled on the Gulf and the Atlantic until hurricane season is officially over November 30th.