{"id":54076,"date":"2020-08-26T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T12:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hurricane-laura-forecast-to-become-catastrophic-category-4\/"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T12:36:00","slug":"hurricane-laura-forecast-to-become-catastrophic-category-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hurricane-laura-forecast-to-become-catastrophic-category-4\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hurricane Laura forecast to become \u2018catastrophic\u2019 Category 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Hurricane Laura forecast to become \u2018catastrophic\u2019 Category 4<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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August 26, 2020 |<\/span> 8:36am |<\/span> Updated August 26, 2020 | 9:00am<\/span><\/p>\n

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\n Hurricane Laura is rapidly evolving into what forecasters believe will be a \u201ccatastrophic\u201d Category 4 hurricane that could destroy homes and ravage communities as it swirls closer toward Texas and Louisiana.<\/p>\n

Satellite images indicate that Laura \u2014 now \u201ca formidable hurricane\u201d \u2014 underwent a significant intensification, \u201cand there are no signs it will stop soon,\u201d the National Hurricane Center said in a Wednesday morning briefing.<\/p>\n

The storm is expected to strike the upper Texas or southwest Louisiana coasts as a major hurricane by late Wednesday or early Thursday, according to The Weather Channel.<\/p>\n

The storm\u2019s maximum sustained winds have increased to near 110 mph with higher gusts, according to forecasters.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are expecting widespread power outages, trees down. Homes and businesses will be damaged,\u201d Donald Jones, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Lake Charles, Louisiana, near the bullseye of Laura\u2019s path, told the Associated Press. \u201cI\u2019m telling you, this is going to be a very serious situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the weather service, a Category 4 hurricane could cause damage that \u201cwill last weeks to possibly months. Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks or months.\u201d<\/p>\n

The storm is expected to increase to 120 mph before landfall and send ocean water surging onto land along more than 450 miles of coast from Texas to Mississippi.<\/p>\n

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People prepare to board a bus for evacuation before the arrival of Hurricane Laura in Lake Charles, Louisiana.<\/span>AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the largest US evacuation amid the coronavirus pandemic, more than half a million people have been ordered to flee an area of the Gulf Coast along the Texas-Louisiana state line.<\/p>\n

More than 385,000 residents were ordered to leave the Texas cities of Beaumont, Galveston and Port Arthur.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you decide to stay, you\u2019re staying on your own,\u201d Port Arthur Mayor Thurman Bartie said.<\/p>\n

In Calcasieu Parish, southwestern Louisiana, another 200,000 were ordered to leave as forecasters predicted a storm surge of up to 13 feet, topped by waves.<\/p>\n

The forecast is particularly alarming for Cameron Parish, Louisiana.<\/p>\n

\u201cCameron Parish is going to [be] part of the Gulf of Mexico for a couple of days based on this forecast track,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n

Laura has already ravaged Puerto Rico, Cuba and Hispaniola, killing at least 23 people in the Caribbean, according to the Weather Channel.<\/p>\n

It comes on the heels of Tropical Storm Marco, which was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane Sunday night but has since been downgraded to a tropical depression. Marco made landfall Monday evening near the mouth of the Mississippi River as a tropical storm.<\/p>\n

With Post wires<\/em>\n <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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