Hanna, taking dead aim on the Texas coast, became the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season on Saturday and was expected to strike…
Hanna, taking dead aim on the Texas coast, became the first hurricane of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season on Saturday and was expected to strike the coast by the early evening, the National Hurricane Center said.
It barreled through the Gulf of Mexico as Hurricane Douglas continued to churn toward Hawaii in the Pacific with a threat of heavy rain and hurricane-strength winds starting Sunday. Meanwhile, a weakening Tropical Storm Gonzalo was expected to dissipate in the Caribbean by Monday.
While 2020 has been crushing records for earliest named storms in the Atlantic – including Cristobal, Edouard, Fay, Gonzalo, and now Hanna – hurricane experts note that the storms so far have been weak and short-lived.
But the peak of hurricane season is still weeks away, and long-range forecasts for the rest of the year indicate an active season is likely. In fact, forecasters from the federal government predicted that up to 19 named storms would form, of which six to 10 would be hurricanes.
Here’s a look at each storm and what to know this weekend:
Tropical Storm Hanna morphed into Hurricane Hanna on Saturday — the Atlantic’s first of the season — as it churned toward the Texas coast for expected landfall Saturday, bringing the threat of a dangerous storm surge before weakening quickly inland, forecasters said.
