We’re Heading Into the Most Active Time of Year for the Tropical Storms

With Laura and Marco making landfall last week with devastating results does not mean we are out of the woods just yet. This next two to three weeks are the most active part of the hurricane season in the gulf. We were extremely fortunate to have Laura go to the east of us like it did. With the images coming out of Lake Charles with homes flattened and major structures having sustained damage that looks like a bomb went off just outside. Parts of the Lousiana are still completely submerged going as far as twenty miles inland, it is incredible that it did not make direct landfall with either Houston or New Orleans as either of those cities would have been in a near apocalyptic state. Even with all of the damage sustained it is a major bullet dodged for both of those cities as the damages for either one of those cities could have been in the billions of dollars scale. Some of the cities that were hit by Laura are returned to nature and most likely will never return as the only trace of these cities are the foundations and strips of asphalt that still remain. As I watched this storm make landfall on Wednesday night it was still intensifying to just five mph shy of a category five, if Laura had slowed down anymore it could have been even worse than what it was. Even though Laura might go down in history for damages there are two more storms in the east Atlantic that are forming as of the time I am writing this, which could turn into major storms at any time. All the energy they need is there and ready for the taking and turn into who knows what at this point. 2020 will go down in the record books for what has already happened, but another page might be written for the cataclysmic power of storms that have come out of the Gulf this year.

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Now onto the local forecast. With Laura finally out of our area we can get back to the normal hot and humid September weather we are all accustomed to. We can expect hot and humid days ahead with the average temp hanging around 100 degrees for the rest of the week with a 50% chance of showers on Wednesday to bring that humidity back in full force.

On the astronomical side we can see a full moon on Wednesday night if the cloud cover leaves our area.