Hurricane Zeta Florida Panhandle
Zeta is a strong category 2 hurricane as it makes a louisiana landfall may bring dangerous storm surge to the florida panhandle national hurricane center said.
Hurricane zeta florida panhandle. Western panhandle remains under tropical storm warning as hurricane zeta crashes louisiana. As of sunday night the storm was south of cuba moving slowly at two miles per hour. Western panhandle residents deluged by hurricane sally last month are being advised to expect heavy rain and wind up to 70 mph when tropical storm zeta reaches the gulf coast on wednesday. Tropical storm and storm surge warnings were issued for escambia and santa rosa.
Hurricane zeta was expected to bring winds up to 73 mph to the florida panhandle on october 28 reports said. Zeta is now a cat 1 hurricane and the florida panhandle is under a tropical storm watch hurricane hurricane warning issued for parts of mexico as tropical storm zeta develops. As of 4 pm cdt monday hurricane zeta was located 90 miles southeast of cozumel mexico and it was moving northwest at 10 mph. Zeta could come ashore between louisiana and florida s western panhandle later in the week.
Zeta is the 27th named storm of this atlantic hurricane season tying a 2005 record. Ap early voting sites in several counties in florida s panhandle will be closing as hurricane zeta makes its approach. While the storm is expected to make landfall south of. But zeta will impact the coastline as far east as the florida panhandle.
The category 2 storm is the season s 11th hurricane and 27th named storm. Zeta become a category 1 hurricane monday afternoon with maximum sustained wind speed of 80 mph. The season s 11th hurricane is forecast to cross the yucatan peninsula monday night where hurricane warnings are in effect. Reports forecast a storm surge of two to four feet.
This footage shows waves churning against pensacola beach pier on wednesday morning. When the storm passed over mexico s yucatán peninsula the core was disrupted diminishing the peak winds.