(Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Francine packed power just as it slammed into the coast of Louisiana, reaching Category 2 strength with 100 miles per hour winds and...
-- Hurricane Francine packed power just as it slammed into the coast of Louisiana , reaching Category 2 strength with 100 miles per hour winds and a dangerous storm surge .The storm made landfall in Terrebonne Parish, around 6 p.m. Eastern time Wednesday, according to the US National Hurricane Center . Francine hit a marshy and sparsely populated stretch of coastline about 85 miles west of New Orleans. New Orleans and Baton Rouge are on alert for flash flooding.
The storm marks the end of an unusual lull in the Atlantic hurricane season, which went quiet in late August just as the season is normally approaching its peak. After several weeks of low activity, meteorologists now are tracking five storms or potential storms in the central Atlantic basin, including Francine.
This is now the third hurricane to strike mainland US in 2024, making it the ninth year since 1900 that has happened by Sept. 11, Phil Klotzbach, a hurricane researcher at Colorado State University, confirmed in an email to Bloomberg News. That’s partly because the storms that formed this year have developed in the central and western parts of the Atlantic basin.
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