Category 2 Hurricane Francine makes landfall in Louisiana

Published: Sep 11, 2024 Duration: 00:02:11 Category: News & Politics

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Well, Francine made landfall in South Louisiana last night as a category two hurricane with winds up to 100 MPH. Yet, some areas had to brace for up to 10 ft of storm surges and major flooding. Ok. We got Craig. You've been telling us about Francine all week long. What's the latest on that? And what else are you tracking? So, Francine's over land, you guys know it's still a tropical storm as of five o'clock this morning, but it has weakened considerably maximum winds 45 MPH right now and it will continue to weaken and rain out now that it is moving up over land and over, uh Mississippi here in the coming hours. The next name on the list is Gordon. And I wanna talk to you about what could become Gordon later today. First, a quick look at Francine again as it is tracking here. Now, up into Mississippi, you saw that landfall yesterday as it came through and now it is cutting up through Mississippi. It will continue to work northward. So we'll say, you know, still a big threat for additional flooding rains across Mississippi, parts of Alabama. And we're still watching for a few potential tornadoes down that way. But overall, uh, that system is weakening pretty quickly. All right, we've got a couple other areas we're watching. There's three other areas that we monitor and then we have our latest depression number seven, the Gulf of Mexico. Now that Francines over land, this area is quieting down. The Caribbean is pretty quiet, but we do want to talk about this next tropical depression. Number seven, movement west northwest at 17 MPH. Maximum winds at 35. It is expected to become a tropical storm could become Gordon here later today or early tomorrow. We'll see, we'll continue to watch that. Eventually it moves into the central part of the Atlantic and most of the models do carry it to the north, keeping it well offshore. The other areas here. Very small chance of development. Only around 10% in this area is interesting. It's along this old frontal boundary. There's a 30% chance for development. The models don't go crazy but they do kind of bring some moisture into the Carolinas. So we're going to continue to watch that and we'll let you know if anything changes with that.

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