Hurricane Delta Rapidly Strengthens Into a Category 4; Forecast to Strike Cancn, Then U.S. Gulf Coa

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Source: Weather Channel

Hurricane Delta Rapidly Strengthens Into a Category 4; Forecast to Strike Cancún, Then U.S. Gulf Coast Later This Week

By weather.com meteorologists 2 hours ago weather.com

Hurricane Delta has intensified into a Category 3 in the Caribbean Sea and is expected to hammer Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula by Wednesday. Delta continues to pose a hurricane danger to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, with threats of storm-surge flooding, damaging winds and heavy rainfall.

Residents from the extreme upper Texas coast and Louisiana to the western Florida Panhandle should be checking frequently for important forecast updates and have their hurricane plans ready to go.

Happening Now

The maximum sustained winds in Delta are now 130 mph, and the storm is moving to the west-northwest at 16 mph.

Winds in Delta increased by 85 mph in the 24 hours ending 11:20 a.m. EDT Tuesday. That is more than double the criteria for the rapid intensification of a tropical cyclone, which is a wind speed increase of at least 35 mph in 24 hours or less.

Delta's intensification was due to an environment of the highest ocean heat content anywhere in the tropical Atlantic basin, low wind shear and sufficiently moist air, in a region notorious for rapid intensification in October, according to Sam Lillo, a NOAA scientist based in Boulder, Colorado.

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