Hurricane Zeta is expected to enter the southern Gulf of Mexico tomorrow morning as a hurricane and then track across the gulf with a likely landfall in southeast Louisiana. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the official forecast track has Zeta as a Category one storm when it makes landfall Wednesday night.
“Just realize that it’s somewhat early, there will be tweaks to this forecast in terms of both the intensity and the exact location of where we think this thing will make landfall,” said Keim.
After Zeta passes over Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula tomorrow it will move northwest, and then turn to the northeast because of an approaching cold front.
“Once this thing gets picked up by that system, I think it’s going to move in and out of here pretty quickly, the upside to that is that it won’t hang around here for a long time period of time and drop lots of rain on us, which some of these storms can do when they sit around for too long,” said Keim.
It will be the fifth named storm to make landfall in Louisiana in 2020 and the 11th for the United State. Keim says the previous record was nine, set in 1916. He says Zeta also ties a record for most named storms in a season with 27 which was set in 2005
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