Hurricane Francine made landfall near Morgan City Wednesday evening and swept through Louisiana, causing widespread flooding in New Orleans and Jefferson Parish. The Category 2 hurricane weakened to a tropical storm over land, and its eyewall brushed the New Orleans and Baton Rouge metropolitan areas for hours, bringing rain to southeastern Louisiana. Since 5 a.m. […]
Parishes across Louisiana are calling for voluntary and mandatory evacuations ahead of Tropical Storm Francine. The storm is expected to strengthen into a Category 2 hurricane before making landfall in southern Louisiana near New Iberia on Wednesday afternoon or evening, according to a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Slidell. Francine is expected to […]
Tropical Storm Francine is strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to become a hurricane before making landfall in central-southern Louisiana. According to forecasts by the National Hurricane Center in Miami, the storm will strengthen into a Category 2 hurricane and reach wind speeds of 160 km/h before making landfall. Francine is expected […]
Tropical Storm Francine is expected to reach the coast of Louisiana on Wednesday as a Category 2 hurricane, meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami said in an update on Monday afternoon. Francine’s structure, which produced sustained winds of 65 mph, continued to improve throughout Monday afternoon. The latest Air Force reconnaissance reported a […]
Lafayette and southwest Louisiana may experience flooding, strong winds and storm surge as Tropical Storm Francine heads toward the Gulf Coast. Francine had peak sustained winds of 50 mph around 10 a.m. Monday. It is expected to be a Category 1 hurricane upon landfall, but strengthening to a Category 2 is “not out of the […]
