{"id":57627,"date":"2020-10-27T10:51:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T16:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=57627"},"modified":"2020-10-27T10:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T16:56:14","slug":"here-we-go-again-zeta-makes-way-towards-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/here-we-go-again-zeta-makes-way-towards-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Here we go again &#8211; Zeta makes way towards LA."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By ALAN SMASON<\/p>\n<p>With Halloween on tap this weekend, Mother Nature appears ready to frighten the Louisiana Gulf Coast with the seventh named storm in the region and the third to make a predicted landfall in Louisiana.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57628\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta_1027am.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57628\" class=\"wp-image-57628 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta_1027am-300x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta_1027am-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta_1027am.png 767w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/226;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57628\" class=\"wp-image-57628 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta_1027am-300x226.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta_1027am-300x226.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta_1027am.png 767w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-57628\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Orleans in the cross-hairs. (Image from NOAA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>At 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, the loosely organized center of Tropical Storm Zeta was located at 21.6 N and 89.5 W or approximately 520 miles south of the mouth of the Mississippi River, moving at 14 m.p.h. towards the northwest with maximum sustained winds of 65 m.p,h.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities expect the storm will intensify into a hurricane once it moves completely away from the Yucatan peninsula and strengthens over the warm waters of the gulf.&nbsp; However, because of anticipated wind sheer and dry air it will encounter, the storm is not likely expected to slow down or remain at the level of more than a Category One hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans is in the center of the cone of the predicted path for the storm, which weather authorities expect will turn north and then northeastward after making landfall.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hurricane warnings have been issued from Morgan City, LA. westward to the Mississippi\/Alabama border with tropical storm warnings existing from Port Allen, Texas westward to the Okaloosa\/Walton County line in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Storm surge warnings have gone up from Intracoastal, LA. westward to Navarre, FL. Forecasters suggest a potential storm surge of 5- 8 ft, for the area&nbsp; west of New Orleans from the mouth of the Pearl River to Dauphin Island, AL. Areas east of New Orleans from Port Fouchon and including Lake Borgne could see a surge of 4-6 ft.<\/p>\n<p>Based on its current track, authorities predict landfall late on Wednesday afternoon or Wednesday night.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Tropical Storm Cristobal affected Southeast Louisiana early in the hurricane season with destructive Hurricanes Laura and Delta making landfalls in Lake Charles and nearby Cameron, respectively.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Here%20we%20go%20again%20-%20Zeta%20makes%20way%20towards%20LA.\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":57628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[234,8790,8795,8788,10974,10973],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57627"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57630,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57627\/revisions\/57630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}