https://www.livescience.com/hurricane-sally-sets-record-threatens-lousiana.htmlBy Rafi Letzter - Staff Writer 18 hours ago
Louisiana already has 23,000 climate refugees living in shelters following Hurricane Laura.
A map shows the range of possible paths for the center of Hurricane Sally, though the National Hurricane center said it's still uncertain what direction the storm will go.
(Image: © National Hurricane Center)
Hurricane Sally is strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected make landfall somewhere on the central Gulf Coast later today (Sept. 14).
The slow-moving storm has been drifting northwest off the coast toward Louisiana, and was officially upgraded from tropical storm to hurricane this afternoon. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) said it's still too soon to tell where exactly its center will move onshore. It's packing an "extremely dangerous and life-threatening storm surge" that threatens people living on the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coastlines, the NHC said. And with forecasts suggesting that it will remain partly over the Gulf's warm, storm-feeding water as it moves ashore, the NHC said Sally could remain a dangerous hurricane for a long time after landfall.
Dangerous flash floods are also likely, according to the NHC, as well as major flooding along rivers and in urban areas.
