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Hurricane Rita was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico and the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which included three of the ten most intense Atlantic hurricanes in terms of barometric pressure ever recorded (along with Wilma and Katrina), Rita was the seventeenth named storm, tenth ...
[e] Track forecasts from the NHC before Rita became a hurricane accurately predicted Rita's path into the Gulf of Mexico and the storm's subsequent curve towards the northwest. However, in response to unanimous shifts in the tracks projected by tropical cyclone forecast models , forecast tracks from the agency between September 20–21 were ...
Current forecast models show the system curving north into the middle of the Atlantic, well away from the U.S. Gabe Hauari is a national trending news reporter at USA TODAY.
A Category 1 hurricane far off the south tip of Mexico's Baja California peninsula could reach Category 3 status as it strengthens nearly 1,000 miles away from land.
Here's the latest update from the National Hurricane Center as of 8 a.m. Monday, Sept. 30: Tropical Storm Kirk: What you should know Location : 740 miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands
The hurricane weakened as it approached the northern gulf coast, and Rita made landfall in extreme southwestern Louisiana at 01:40 am on September 24 [nb 2] with winds of 120 mph (195 km/h). Once inland, the hurricane weakened rapidly due to increasing wind shear, falling to tropical depression intensity over Arkansas by September 25.
The National Hurricane Center also warned of "life-threatening surf and rip current conditions." About 16,000 utility customers were out of power Monday morning, according to poweroutage.us , the ...
The National Hurricane Center is tracking Tropical Storm Joyce and Hurricane Isaac in the Atlantic and a system in the Caribbean, which could develop into a tropical storm.