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[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 ...
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 ...
Offshore oil platforms throughout Rita's path also suffer significant damage, though the refineries of Houston, originally thought to be at risk, escape the brunt of the storm. Many of the indirect deaths linked to Rita are caused by a single bus fire in mass evacuations out of Houston. [105] Rita causes 59 deaths in the state all told. [1]
A low pressure area has an 80% chance of forming into a tropical depression in the next 48 hours, forecasters said. ... the 2024 hurricane season could be picking back up with a low-pressure ...
Maps show the areas impacted by storm surge, rainfall levels and more as Helene, once a major hurricane and now a tropical storm, moves inland from Florida's Gulf Coast over Georgia.
Tropical Storm Francine will likely become a hurricane overnight Monday or early Tuesday, according to hurricane center director Michael Brennan. Storm tracker: Track projected path of Tropical ...
Location: 740 miles west-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands. Maximum sustained winds: 50 mph. Movement: west at 12 mph Spaghetti models for Tropical Depression 12 At 11 a.m. EDT, the center of ...
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.