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Tropical cyclone forecast model projections of Rita's track on September 22. Hurricane Rita was the first storm to make landfall on the U.S. following Hurricane Katrina, [9]: 1179 which had caused widespread destruction in Louisiana and Mississippi less than a month prior.
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 ...
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.
Here is the latest information, including the projected path of the storm. ... The Hurricane Center uses only the top four or five highest performing models to help make its forecasts.
Hurricane Hilary made landfall in Mexico's Baja California Peninsula on Aug. 20, 2023, and was tracked from San Diego to east of Fresno as a tropical storm. No tropical storm has officially made ...
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.
As of Monday, Sept. 9, 2024, the National Hurricane Center's new experimental cone shows Tropical Storm Francine hitting the US coast as a hurricane late Wednesday.
The center of the storm went from being east of Murrieta in Riverside County at 5 p.m. to above Compton around 8 p.m., according to the National Hurricane Center.