“This is something we haven’t had here yet, two expected hurricanes in our state so close behind,” Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards said, urging the White House to declare a federal state of emergency.
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“There may not be time to restore electricity supplies between the two storms,” he added.
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According to the weather service AccuWeather, quoted by the American daily USA Today, the Gulf of Mexico experienced two such storms in rapid succession only twice – in September 1933 and in June 1959.
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Satellite image of storm Laura over the North Atlantic on August 21
Photo: Uncredited, ČTK / AP
“Marco’s first tropical storm is heading from the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana – it should intensify to a first-class hurricane on Monday night and hit the coast near New Orleans on Tuesday,” Dagmar Hons of Meteopress commented on Hurricane News.
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“Laura’s second tropical storm is over Haiti. It will be advancing along the Cuban coast on Monday, and after further strengthening it will follow the same trajectory as Marco – in Louisiana – it should strike as a Category 2 hurricane on Thursday, “she said.
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Dangerous connection
“Despite the fact that both hurricanes will reach the first two categories on the Saffir-Simpson scale, they will not be the most destructive hurricanes due to their rapid progression – there is a high risk of floods from torrential rains,” she said. meteorologist.
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Hurricanes, whose wind speeds exceed 118 kilometers per hour, and tropical storms are massive air turbines powered by warm air rising from heated oceans. Their season lasts from June to October, when the water begins to cool again.
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“The most devastating hurricane of the 21st century – Hurricane Katrina, which formed on August 23, 2005 and caused enormous damage in the southern United States. The wind speed above the sea reached 280 km / h, above the land 250 km / h, “Hons reminded.
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A ten-year-old girl died in Haiti
Tropical storm Laura hit Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Haiti over the weekend, where a ten-year-old girl died when a tree fell on her.
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Hurricane Marco is expected in the US state of Louisiana on Monday afternoon (late in the evening CET), CNN reported.
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On Wednesday evening or Thursday morning, a tropical storm or Hurricane Laura will arrive on the South American coast, in Louisiana or nearby.
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US President Donald Trump has already declared a state of emergency in Puerto Rico on Saturday, which was hit by Laura on the same day and at the same time by a mild earthquake.
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