Fast moving Hurricane Zeta is approaching the southeastern gulf region of Louisiana. Currently traveling over 20mph and expected to increase in forward speed Zeta is carrying winds near 100mph and pushing a dangerous storm surge along the coastline. Residents in the southeast Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coastal areas should be prepared.
[Hurricane Center] the center of Hurricane Zeta was located near latitude 27.9 North, longitude 91.1 West. Zeta is moving toward the north-northeast near 20 mph (35 km/h). A faster north-northeastward motion is expected through tonight followed by an even faster northeastward motion on Thursday and an east-northeastward motion early Friday.
On the forecast track, the center of Zeta will make landfall in southeastern Louisiana this afternoon. Zeta will then move close to the Mississippi coast this evening, and move across the southeastern and eastern United States on Thursday.
Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 100 mph (155 km/h) with higher gusts. Some additional strengthening is possible during the next few hours, and Zeta is expected to reach the northern Gulf Coast as a hurricane before weakening over the southeastern United States on Thursday. (more)
The hurricane eye-wall is 35 miles and the storm is moving fast. Both aspects are good news, but the strength of the storm is still an issue. Be careful and if you find yourself in need of any assistance, feel free to reach out in the comments section or send us an email.
Prayers.
I think you meant “landfall imminent.”
Just in time for election day….
Stay safe Treepers
We are under a tropical storm warning here in North Carolina, twenty five miles north of Charlotte until Saturday. Lots of high winds and buckets of rain
Praying for us all!
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Prayers Up for Anyone in Zeta’s Path .
Lord , Please Hold these People and Animals in Your Palms
and Keep Them Safe from Danger and Chaos .
Amen.?
God bless all in the path of the storm.
After dodging earlier storms this year, we’ve finally ended up smack in the middle of this one..
As we’re 30 miles N of New Orleans, the highest wind we’ve seen thus far is 45 mph. Also never seen one moving this quickly, it has a forward speed of some 25 mph.
If the lights can hold on another 30 minutes or so we’ll be in the eye, which is trailing the storm. Never seen that before either.
A trailing eye is because it is a very fast moving storm…you are in my Prayers.
Beware trailing tornadoes though…sounds like a freight train and at night you cannot see them at all…been there, done that.
Eminent now corrected to imminent. Eminent, immanent, and imminent are related by cognate and sound much alike.
Northshore of New Orleans– so far, so good, & still have the power. Geaux Tigers!
in Mobile, Al and getting lots of wind bursts, rain, and quite a few tornado warnings. So far so good. It is moving very fast and we are expected to get 60-70 mph winds being on the east side of the storm..
In Perdido Key FL, wind and rain… Some tornado warnings…
East Texas here, just rain most of the day from the far outer bands.
Windy. Not much tidal surge in Slidell. Not much rain. The eye was interesting… 35 minutes of calmness after some really impressive southeast gusts in the eyewall. And sure enough, the wind reversed. Liking my Generac ever since the power went off about 3 hour ago.
NE Georgia here. We are under a Tropical Storm Warning! Hopefully it will pass fast enough we won’t get as much rain as 2 weeks ago! BUT, 50- 60 mph winds? Lord help us all.
Thank You, Holy Spirit, for providing wisdom, counsel, and peace. We love You, Father, and know that the wind and waves obey Your voice. We are grateful that You hold all these people in Your mighty, righteous hand. Thank You, for the talents You placed in the might Cajun navy, all the first responders, and the numerous great neighborly people in the South. They Love each other because they follow the character of Our Father….thank You for Your overwhelming, never-ending, undeserved love, as You take what the enemy means for evil and turn it for good!
As an ex-pat Southeast Louisiananin, I thank you KT , for your prayers and kind words!
There have been an extremely high number of Southerners responsible for teaching me about prayer! 😉 My best mentors taught me to pray in gratefulness and faith….”Sugar, just pray like it has already been answered, and you are celebrating!”
Yes! Wonderful to hear , KT…God Bless you!!
Praying for all, including us, as my firearms training school in NE GA got badly flooded 2 weeks ago from a similar weather event and the ground was even dry then. Now the ranges are soaked and even more snags downstream in our adjoining river from fallen trees from the last event likely mean more flooding tomorrow.
Fairhope, Al here on the Gulf Coast.
Tropical Storm my backside!
90 mph winds, i.e. category 2 hurricane for several hrs.
As of about 10 pm (I think) back down to a Cat 1
This is the 2nd time in a month that weather forecasters under estimated for this area.
Yep, we can’t forecast what the weather will be for a week but we can forecast what the climate will be 20 yrs from now, don’t cha know 😉
I’m still haven’t had repairs done to my house due to damage from Sally. The damage wasn’t that bad but will be expensive.
I was told it’ll be about another 2 weeks before a company can make those repairs. They’re swamped.
And now, it looks like ZETA has done worse damage to my home. It appears that a large tree is leaning on my roof, at least that’s what it sounded like, big BOOMMM & shook the house.
But at least I can still stay in the house.
Sorta good news- at least I can have repairs from both storms done at the same time and I still have electric.
Power out in west Georgia near i20. Stout gusts to 40-50 it seems. Read/saw storm moving so fast there is a trailing eye.