Live updates: Hurricane Sally crawls toward Gulf Coast with risk of ‘life-threatening’ surge and flooding

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Sally upgraded to hurricane with rapid strengthening underway

Hurricane Sally is rapidly intensifying and slowly edging toward the coastline of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi, where it is forecast to push a dangerous surge ashore and unload tremendous rainfall through Wednesday.

Due to its slow forward speed as it approaches the coast, heavy rains will deluge some parts of the Gulf Coast with potentially more than two feet of rain. This could cause widespread, major flooding, and if heavy downpours continue for many hours in New Orleans, they could challenge the capacity of the city’s pumping system.

The storm track forecast has greater uncertainty than usual so close to landfall, with the Hurricane Center noting that “it is too early to determine where Sally’s center will move onshore.” Its air pressure sharply plummeted Monday morning, a sign that the storm was evacuating air at the upper levels of the atmosphere and allowing surface wind speeds to strengthen.

 

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