{"id":57639,"date":"2020-10-28T07:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=57639"},"modified":"2020-10-28T07:05:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T13:05:18","slug":"zeta-expected-to-be-category-2-at-landfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/zeta-expected-to-be-category-2-at-landfall\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeta expected to be Category 2 at landfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By ALAN SMASON<\/p>\n<p>After six near misses from previous named hurricanes or tropical storms this very long hurricane season, New Orleans appears to be in the crosshairs of a direct hit by a better organized Hurricane Zeta, which strengthened overnight from a tropical storm&nbsp; to a hurricane.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57640\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta1028.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57640\" class=\"wp-image-57640 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta1028-300x211.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta1028-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta1028.png 605w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/211;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57640\" class=\"wp-image-57640 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta1028-300x211.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta1028-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Zeta1028.png 605w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-57640\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hurricane Zeta threatens New Orleans as a potential Category 2 storm by later today. (Graphic from NOAA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Forecasters altered their predictions for both the intensity and the predicted path of the storm early Wednesday.&nbsp; The expected spot where the storm will make landfall has shifted significantly to the west, threatening the Greater New Orleans area with the highest sustained winds it will have seen since the passage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Terrebonne Bay is now predicted as the likely spot where the center of Hurricane Zeta will make landfall as a Category 2 storm. The fast-moving system is tracking north at 17 m.p.h.,, but will shift to the northeast as it approaches the coastline. Authorities predict the first tropical force winds and rain bands will begin to come ashore and affect the city by as early as noon today, but landfall should be around 3:00 or 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>While the potential for heavy rains of 3-4 inches remains a possibility, the likeliest damage from a fast-moving Hurricane Zeta&nbsp; will be from downed power lines and trees and wind damage to area structures. Entergy and CLECO officials predict power could be out for much of the area&#8217;s residents for a minimum of 24- 48 hours.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dangerous surge from the storm is also expected to move onshore as the system moves closer with the Misssissippi Gulf Coast expecting 6-9 feet high levels.<\/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=\"Zeta%20expected%20to%20be%20Category%202%20at%20landfall\";<\/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":57640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10975,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57639"}],"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=57639"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57642,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57639\/revisions\/57642"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}