Hurricane Nate sent US Gulf Coast residents scrambling to prepare this weekend, as hurricane warnings covered the region. Louisiana’s governor urged his state’s residents to take Nate seriously, saying the storm “has the potential to do a lot of damage”. “We do want people to be very, very cautious and to not take this storm for granted.”The National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami issued hurricane and storm surge warnings for south-east Louisiana and the Mississippi and Alabama coasts. Edwards said forecasts for the fast-moving storm, which threatens to strike Louisiana as a hurricane this weekend, indicate the greatest risks are winds and storm surge, rather than intense amounts of rain. The major concern was the storm surge was projected to coincide with high tide.

Source: The Guardian October 07, 2017 11:48 UTC