Hurricane Zeta 2020 Timeline
A sixth hurricane landfall on the continental u s.
Hurricane zeta 2020 timeline. At the 2 a m. The remnants of hurricane zeta will track to the triad late in the week. The general timeline of hurricane zeta is shown above following advisories of the national hurricane center. Noaa s climate prediction center is forecasting a hyperactive 2020 atlantic hurricane season.
Sunday advisory zeta had maximum sustained winds of 40 mph and was stationary 250 miles south southeast of the western tip of cuba. Key aspects defining hurricane zeta follow below. 9 17 am edt october 29 2020. These dates adopted by convention historically describe the period in each year when most atlantic tropical.
Timeline for hurricane zeta in triad. The purple circle indicates the extent of hurricane force winds at least 74 mph according to the national hurricane center. The twenty seventh named storm and eleventh hurricane of the exceptionally active 2020 atlantic hurricane season zeta formed from a broad area of low pressure that formed in the western caribbean sea on october 19. Hurricane zeta now a category 1 storm is battering southeastern louisiana and mississippi with high winds heavy rain and a life threatening storm surge according to the national hurricane center.
Articles from the. Tropical storm zeta formed early sunday morning south of western cuba and put the 2020 hurricane season in the record books as only the second year in history to see 27 named storms. The 2020 atlantic hurricane season is an ongoing event in the annual tropical cyclone season in the north atlantic ocean. The season officially began on june 1 and will end on november 30.
Zeta will move rapidly across the southeastern united states over the next few days. Posted oct 27 2020 hurricane zeta will make landfall on mexico s yucatan peninsula overnight and then head for the gulf. Zeta is the 11th hurricane of the 2020 atlantic season and would be the fifth named storm to make landfall in louisiana this year the most since the state started keeping records in 1851. 9 57 am edt october 29 2020.