After lashing Mexico's Caribbean coastline, Delta, now a Category 3 storm, is located 555 kilometers south of Louisiana and packing winds of 115 miles an hour, the US National Hurricane Center said in its 2100 GMT bulletin. Delta had earlier slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula in southeast Mexico as a Category 2 storm, toppling trees and ripping down power lines. Battered US GulfMany along the Louisiana coastline have yet to recover from Hurricane Laura, which struck in late August as a strong Category 4 storm on the five-level Saffir-Simpson scale. Edwards has already warned that Delta could sweep up old debris and hurl it like a missile. Delta is the 26th named storm of an unusually active Atlantic hurricane season.

Source: Dhaka Tribune October 09, 2020 00:00 UTC