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OK, good morning.
I'm meteorologist cheetah craft.
It's just about 3:50 this Thursday morning.
So if you're waking up,
if you haven't been able to sleep overnight,
Hurricane Lord did make landfall as a cat
4 just before 1:00 AM this morning near
Cameron Lee we Louisiana, so this image.
I feel like this image is just
really shows it the best you see.
A strong cap for making landfall in fact,
keep in mind this after
the sunrise this morning,
the National Hurricane Center and
the National Weather Service.
They may reassess and this could
be a CAT5 we could have seen a
CAT5 just make landfall and what's
really incredible about this?
In this year it's 140 miles East.
If this would have been over.
Galveston Houston right now,
this would have been.
Catastrophic damage?
I mean,
it's just absolutely incredible now,
once the sun comes up and we're
able to survey the damage,
we're going to see what has happened
to overnight and what is continuing
to happen right now it is continued
to hold its strength over the past
couple of hours even after making landfall,
and it's expected to do this so
even over the next couple of hours
so still well defined center of
circulation that well defined.
I moving over Lake Charles.
Let me show you here.
The outer bands though extend all
the way into northern Louisiana
and we are expecting.
Laura,
to continue to impact the entire
state of Louisiana throughout
the day today will not be until
this afternoon where this finally
starts to move in North Louisiana.
But just this image is just incredible.
Look at the size,
the intensity a strong cap for
appan landfall again later on,
this could be deemed as a CAT5.
We did just have a wind gust reported
at the Lake Charles Airport at
128 mph before it went offline.
128 mph. So incredible.
To look at the radar image here Locali
and to think how we were spared overnight.
Absolutely incredible conditions
that have continued to unfold.
Let me show you current wins, so again,
it's now 3:52 in the morning.
Notice here Breezy, but that's manageable.
We're talking winds around 10 to 15 mph.
Once you head East, a very different story.
Belmont picking up sustained around 28 mph.
Different story sustained wins this
morning around 90 mph in Lake Charles again.
They did have a peak gust at the airport.
Just about 20 minutes ago of 128
mph before it went offline,
so 90 mph sustained winds there
in Lake Charles.
Everything that we're seeing so far here
locally this morning is all manageable.
Let me say it,
let me tell you what's happening now.
Breezy conditions with a few isolated showers
to an isolated thunderstorm expected today.
We're continuing to monitor
and watch Galveston elevated,
surf.
And of course, Hwy 87.
Those were some of the images that you were
seeing yesterday afternoon and evening.
Sustained winds around 10 to 20 mph,
but that.
Is it that is it?
This is an incredible situation
for Houston and once the sun comes
up and we're really able to get
a better scope and idea as to
what has unfolded in Louisiana.
Were our hearts are with them so
many of our friends and family and
loved ones either had to evacuate
or are here people who had decided
to stay and write out Laura in
the some of those parishes.
Again, we're going to be able
to understand exactly what has
unfolded for the overnight hours.
Here locally, temperatures go back
to the mid to low 90s this afternoon.
Really, everything is over here in Houston.
We again will be tracking about
the slight rain chance, an breezy,
midday and afternoon and that is about it.
Let me walk you through the timeline.
This is from the National Hurricane Center.
This is the latest track.
Is starting to weaken Hurricane Laura.
Maximum sustained winds still at 120 mph.
It is starting to move though a
little bit faster moving in northerly
direction around 15 mph.
Notice even this afternoon it's
actually still expected to hold
potentially cat one status,
even in northern Louisiana,
so areas that haven't had to brace
ever for a hurricane are going to
potentially have hurricane force winds
coming their direction and really
heavy rain and then expected to remain
a tropical storm beta as we have.
Into our overnight hours tonight
into early tomorrow morning before
it moves off to the East Coast.
So as far as our seven day forecast again,
the event in Houston.
It was a non event and thankfully
so but all areas East of the Texas,
Louisiana border this morning,
especially after sunrise.
We're going to be looking at images
that we've never seen that coming
out of Louisiana temperatures in
the mid 90s here that hangs with us
right through the upcoming weekend
again because it's 354 and I.
This is Facebook Live,
so we are not under a time constraint.
Let me go back to our radar image.
I really do believe that this
radar image just shows it the best.
Some of you weren't able to sleep overnight.
I understand we're dealing with
a strong category,
four hurricane that made landfall just
before 1:00 AM your Cameron, Louisiana.
It's continuing to ride northward.
We had a peak wind gusts reported
just about 20 minutes ago at the
Lake Charles Airport of 128 mph.
Sustained winds right now at 9090 mph.
This is going to continue to
move in that northerly direction,
so all impacts are all across
the state of Louisiana.
I mean, look at this clean split here.
For all of our counties and
a Cat 4 hurricane.
Just about 140 miles East, just?
I mean,
it's still hard to comprehend
edges what has unfolded overnight.
Let me zoom in a little bit tighter.
Still.
That well defined eye,
it has started a week into a category three.
It is expected to hold hurricane status,
so count 1 even by midday today
we're still going
to be talking about hurricane
force winds through northern
Louisiana through midday today.
So throughout the our show
begins around 4:30 this morning.
We do have crews all across Louisiana.
Texas, we're going to continue to monitor,
of course, Galveston Bay.
What is going on here locally?
But it's just it's just a clean split
of where the impacts are falling and
pretty much all of the entire area of
Houston and the surrounding areas,
including Galveston.
Have truly been spared,
so just keep your thoughts and prayers
with all areas again East of that
Texas Louisiana border as we continue
to watch Hurricane Laura make its
way across portions of Louisiana,
our show begins around 4:30 this morning.