Storm Cristobal landed in southeastern Louisiana early Sunday evening, according to the National Hurricane Center, which has created dangerous conditions that will continue to spread across parts of the northern Gulf Coast.
Before landing at around 5 pm, Cristobal slowed down his journey towards the Gulf coast.
While the storm was offshore, thousands were without electricity on Sunday morning in parts of the Louisiana and Mississippi coast. Some roads were flooded. The National Weather Service reported one hurricane Saturday evening in Florida, near downtown Orlando.
Meteorologists said that the third storm, called the busy Atlantic hurricane season, is not expected to worsen to a hurricane, but will leave its mark as it moves inland along the southeastern coast of Louisiana.
Storms with strong tropical winds reached the mouth of the Mississippi River on Sunday, with maximum winds of up to 50 mph. The storm slowed to 5 mph on a northward path after moving at 12 mph earlier in the day. By Sunday evening, Cristobal was moving at 7 mph and it was 65 miles south of New Orleans. The National Hurricane Center forecast a "gradual northwestern shift" late on Sunday.
The Miami National Hurricane Center warned that "conditions are expected to continue to deteriorate today." "The center of Cristobal will approach the coast of the northern Gulf of Mexico this afternoon, then move inland through Louisiana late this morning until Monday morning, and to the north through Arkansas and Missouri Monday afternoon until Tuesday."
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Louisiana Governor John Bell Edwards declared a state of emergency. Edwards cautioned residents in a tweet: "Keep up with the weather this weekend as Tropical "Storm Cristobal" makes its way to Louisiana."
Windows in New Orleans were equipped hours before Cristobal landed.
Although the streets were mostly empty, those still on mission were not interested in the impending storm.
CR Holloway, 83, a Frenchman, was wearing a face mask while shopping for sesame seeds at a dinner he planned to deliver on Monday evening. When asked about the possibility of floods in the city, he said his ideas are more preoccupied with epidemics of COVID-19 and calls for more police changes than with Cristobal.
"The storm looks like the lesser evil, insignificant compared to what happens in our culture," Holloway said.
Likewise, Vina Nguyen, the owner of the art gallery, framed the storm in the larger context of the events that shook her city.
Like many shop owners in downtown New Orleans, Nguyen stepped up her art gallery last week to protect against protests against police brutality like a storm. Prior to rallies last week, the exhibition was closed due to the epidemic.
"It's crazy about what we're going through with the epidemic and protests and now a tropical storm. Nguyen said:" It's a strange time. "" I'm in a kind of disbelief. "
Brandon Smith of Biloxi, Mississippi, said he always climbed before the storm.
"We have learned a powerful and costly lesson with (Hurricane) Katrina, and I think I feel a little bit paranoid about storms these days," he said. “It is not always appropriate to pull the panels out of the shed, but a few hours of preparation goes a long way.”
Smith said that his family's home, located near the Chutacabovova River, was flooded during Katrina, but the windows were not broken. The house is 15 feet above sea level, so it's not expected to flow from Cristobal.
He said, "But I try to take all precautions to protect the house from flying debris." "If the window is destroyed, everything inside is destroyed. Why not protect it?"
Smith's grandfather, chief sergeant. Jimmy was to. Smith is one of the founding members of the 53st Hurricane Reconnaissance Squadron for reconnaissance weather at Kessler Air Force Base in Biloxi.
Smith said: "He passed away a few years ago, but I take these storms seriously as he did and will always be so."
The Hurricane Center said the storm could generate torrential rains from east Texas to Florida this week. Cristobal is expected to produce a total precipitation accumulation of 4 to 8 inches across parts of the central Gulf Coast to the Lower Mississippi Valley, and 12 inches of rain possible in isolated areas.
Some hurricanes could have occurred this afternoon and night across eastern Louisiana, southern Mississippi, southern Alabama, and northern Florida.
In some parts of Louisiana, building crews increased dam height in anticipation of the storm's height.
Meteorologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecast last month that up to 19 named storms will take place this year, including 10 hurricanes. It is one of many forecasts that predicts the unusually busy Atlantic hurricane season, which started on Monday.
The meteorological service said the storm had already had an impact on Saturday evening when a hurricane landed near downtown Orlando. The hurricane has just missed a group of George Floyd demonstrators in Lake Iola at about 7:30 pm. There were no casualties, the edges of the trees were destroyed, and there were reports of blackouts.