Andrea Leinfelder is the space reporter for the Houston Chronicle. Hurricane Marco is now expected to hang offshore in the Gulf of Mexico, potentially curving toward Houston and keeping the city on alert (once again) for two weather systems this week. Houston again facing threat of both Marco and Laura. The center warned of life-threatening storm surges and hurricane-force winds along the Gulf Coast. Tropical Storm Marco 10 a.m. update Aug 24, 2020. The storm made landfall around 6 p.m. local time near Creole, Louisiana, with maximum sustained winds of … The North Carolina chapter of Marco Patriots said it’s returning the favor after the help Eastern North Carolina received after Hurricane Florence. The probable path of the center of Hurricane Marco as of Aug. 23, 2020, at 4 p.m. CDT. It was forecast to move over Cuba on Sunday night or Monday. Tropical Storm Laura battered the Dominican Republic and Haiti and headed to the same part of the U.S. coast, also as a potential hurricane. John Bel Edwards, who declared a state of emergency Friday, asked President Donald Trump for a federal emergency declaration. It was the group's third deployment to Louisiana this year after also providing relief after hurricanes Sally and Laura, said Matthew Melican, president of the Marco Patriots. An emergency response nonprofit based on Marco Island cleared downed trees and rescued pets in a Louisiana town last weekend in the aftermath of Hurricane Delta. It is expected to hit Louisiana's coast around midday Monday. Ahead of Hurricane Marco, from left, Angel Luin, Paul Khong and Lam Thach load a family shrimp vessel with food in Venice, La., Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. Tropical Storm Marco is strengthening quickly and is expected to become a hurricane today ahead of initial predictions, according to a National Hurricane Center update.. Marco … Tropical Storm Marco has weakened from a hurricane and is moving north-northwest, with the center of the storm located at around 300 miles southeast of Morgan City, Louisiana, as of late Sunday night. Daily News Updates Hurricane Laura will "rapidly strengthen to a Category 4 hurricane" as it barrels toward the Upper Texas and southwest Louisiana coasts Wednesday evening. Raymond Monday of Gretna, though, had only a generator on his cart at Sam’s Club. The hurricane center said the storms were not expected to interact as the region faces an unusually active hurricane season. Haitian civil protection officials said they had received reports that a 10-year-old girl had died when a tree fell on a home in the southern coastal town of Anse-a-Pitres, on the border with the Dominican Republic. A hurricane watch was issued for the New Orleans metro area, which Hurricane Katrina pummeled in August 2005. Marco is moving from the Virgin Islands, eastern Puerto Rico, and the adjacent Caribbean waters north-northwest at 12 mph, and this general motion is expected to continue through Sunday morning. "Our crews are doing everything they can to prepare and are pre-staging response assets to be able respond to emergencies as rapidly and safely as possible once the storms pass.”. It was moving west-northwest at 21 mph (33 kph). From CNN Newsource affiliates. The storm is forecast to reach hurricane strength early next week in the Gulf of Mexico before making landfall Wednesday somewhere between Florida’s Panhandle and western Louisiana with 75 mph winds. The probable path of the center of Tropical Storm Laura as of Aug. 23, 2020, at 4 p.m. CDT. The path of Tropical Storm Laura shifted west Sunday morning, indicating it could make landfall in southeast Texas or Louisiana later this week. Marco’s forecast path shifts south as it weakens, Laura strengthening near Cuba BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) - Marco weakened yesterday, and continues to look weaker Monday morning. It could reach the Houston area early Wednesday. Tate Reeves said at a news conference Saturday as he declared a state of emergency. Marco's path is heading toward Texas, while Laura's path has moved away from Florida and toward Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Hundreds of thousands were without power in the Dominican Republic, as both countries on the island of Hispaniola suffered heavy flooding. TOP STORIES. Coronavirus live updates: Texas eclipses 850K cases over weekend, Joel and Victoria Osteen welcome faithful back to Lakewood Church, Friends, family gather to celebrate and commemorate George Floyd’s birthday, Law school grads finally get to don caps and gowns at graduation events, Motorcyclist killed in solo crash in downtown Houston. Crews armed with megaphones in the Dominican capital of Santo Domingo had urged dozens of residents in flood-prone areas to evacuate before Laura’s heavy rains hit. More Videos. Louisiana Gov. PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Marco became a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico Sunday on a path toward the Louisiana coast. How 2020 hurricane season stacks up against 2005. Weather.us meteorologist Jack Sillin said that if one storm is much stronger than the other, the weaker system will usually weaken substantially or dissipate as a result of the interaction. “We’ve got a freezer full of food” at home, along with large containers of water, he said. Can the Astros win another World Series without George Springer? PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Marco became a hurricane over the Gulf of Mexico Sunday on a path toward the Louisiana coast. People in Louisiana headed to stores to stock up on food, water and other supplies. Tropical Storm Laura … A storm surge of up to 6 feet (2 meters) was forecast for parts of coastal Louisiana and Mississippi. The tropical storm is expected to move across the central Gulf of Mexico as a hurricane and to approach the central Gulf Coast on Monday, according to the National Hurricane Center. “We haven't seen two storms in the gulf in about 60 years and they are both expected to make landfall this week, as of right now," Petty Officer 1st Class Amelia Chutchins, of the Coast Guard's District Eight command center, said in a news release. The path of this storm still has had a high level of uncertainty, but the National Weather Service's Houston/Galveston office said Laura's trajectory should become less volatile after it emerges into the Gulf of Mexico Monday night or Tuesday. It's not expected to strengthen much over the next 24 hours, and then it should gradually weaken, becoming a remnant low by Tuesday night, according to a 4 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center. As of the 11 a.m. EST advisory from the National Hurricane Center, Laura was 20 miles southwest of Ponce, Puerto Rico, with 40 mph winds and moving west at 18 mph. The Coast Guard is watching both storms and urging people to stay off the water. Additional strengthening is forecast during the next day or two, with a weakening forecast ahead on Monday and Tuesday. The storm left more than 100,000 people without water in the Dominican Republic on Saturday night, while earlier it snapped trees and knocked out power to more than 200,000 customers in neighboring Puerto Rico. “We are dealing with not only two potential storms in the next few hours, we are also dealing with Covid-19.”, Breaking News As it continues its path toward southeast Louisiana, Marco strengthened into a hurricane on Sunday and has sustained winds near 75 mph. Entertainment Both storms are forecast to strike the U.S. within a day of each other, forecasters said. Both storms were expected to bring 3 to 6 inches (8 to 15 centimeters) of rain to areas they were passing over or near, threatening flooding. TEXAS FLOOD MAP: Your guide to long-term flood-risk data for Houston neighborhoods. Tropical Storm Marco is strengthening quickly and is expected to become a hurricane today ahead of initial predictions, according to a National Hurricane Center update. “We are in unprecedented times,” Mississippi Gov. It would be the first time two hurricanes form in the Gulf of Mexico simultaneously, according to records dating to at least 1900, said Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. As of the 10 a.m. update, Marco had winds of 50 mph, down from 70 … Your guide to long-term flood-risk data for Houston neighborhoods, https://www.facebook.com/AndreaCLeinfelder/, First week of early voting in Harris County tops 2016 totals, Houston company to deliver ice mining experiment to the moon, Space collision avoided as defunct Soviet satellite, Chinese rocket body pass without incident, Trump billboard in Houston goes viral after being vandalized, Texas ranks worst in national cost-of-voting study.
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