As of 10am CDT Friday, the center of Delta was located about 130 miles SSW of Cameron, Louisiana. Extrapolating out its current motion – N at 13 mph – landfall should be taking place along the SW Louisiana coast between 7-9pm CDT this evening. Sadly, Delta will be making landfall in nearly the exact same location as Hurricane Laura only 6 weeks ago, and much of this area has hardly begun the recovery from that storm.

Southwesterly shear has started to impact the storm a bit and slow weakening is likely leading up to landfall. That being said, this will still be a dangerous storm with wind and surge being the primary threats. Storm surge could be as high as 11 feet in spots.

This will be the tenth named storm to make landfall in the U.S. this season (a new record), the fourth named storm to hit Louisiana, and the first Greek alphabet-named storm on record to make landfall in the U.S. The 2020 season can’t end soon enough, but officially we still have a few more weeks to go. Hang in there!