Zeta re-strengthens to a hurricane, takes aim at Gulf Coast

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By KEVIN McGILL and REBECCA SANTANA

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Zeta re-strengthened into a hurricane early Wednesday as Louisiana braced for the 27th named storm of a historically busy Atlantic hurricane season.

Landfall is expected south of New Orleans with life-threatening storm surge and strong winds expected along portions of the northern Gulf Coast beginning around midday.

Zeta raked across the Yucatan Peninsula Tuesday, striking as a hurricane, before weakening to a tropical storm.

Hurricane warnings stretched from Morgan City, Louisiana, along the Mississippi coast to the Alabama state line. The tropical storm warning along the coast of the Florida panhandle has been extended eastward to the Walton/Bay County Line. Early Wednesday, the storm had sustained winds of 85 mph (136 kph) and was centered 320 miles (514 kilometers) south-southwest of the Mississippi River’s mouth.





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[NurseJackie]

1. How many times in the past have we ever gotten to "Z" when naming hurricanes?

[rampartc]

2. after the seasons names are all used, they begin greek letters

this storm is "zeta", typing the record of 2005. still plenty of season left.

[NurseJackie]

4. So we used all the pre-planned names PLUS "Alpha" through "Zeta"???

OMG!

I guess the next ones will be "Alpha-1" "Beta-1" "Gamma-1" etc.

Insane and scary.

[Bantamfancier]

6. Just want to point out that zeta is

the sixth letter of the greek alphabet.
Omega is the 24th and last letter.

[d_r]

8. Watch out

Zeta eta theta

[NurseJackie]

10. Thanks!

It certainly seems (or sounds) like it would be the last.

I guess that's why we don't have Zeta watches, and the movie wasn't called "The Zeta Man" instead of "The ?mega Man".

[HariSeldon]

7. Zeta isn't even the middle of the Greek alphabet

We've still got Eta, Theta, Iota, Kappa, Lambda, Mu, Nu, Xi, Omicron, Pi, Rho, Sigma, Tau, Upsilon, Phi, Chi, Psi, and Omega as names if needed.

[NurseJackie]

11. Thanks!

[NurseJackie]

5. PS: Thanks for the info.

[Sherman A1]

3. I understand they expect a Cat 2 at landfall

Good thing is that it is moving quickly.

[Baclava]

9. 90mph moving North at 17 now, yeah its coming fast, lots bigger and quicker than predicted

Never trust a weather man on GOM storms 48 hrs out

Crazy thing is Atlanta may get TS force winds and this thing will combine with winter storm to dump snow on NYC tomorrow!

[Baclava]

12. Cat 2 now, 100 mph, moving NNE at 20, outer bands 60 mi from NOLA, coming fast

[Baclava]

13. Landfall imminent as strengthening Cat 2, 110 mph, NNE at 22, aiming right at NOLA