The National Hurricane Center forecast the Louisiana landfall of Hurricane Laura on the mark nearly four days in advance of the storm hitting the US coast. By Sunday morning — when the storm was only a 50 mph tropical storm over Haiti — the National Hurricane Center was projecting the storm would make landfall in the early hours of Thursday morning in far western Louisiana. That is a remarkably accurate forecast – especially considering that at that time the National Hurricane Center was also dealing with Hurricane Marco developing in the Gulf of Mexico as well. The error for the forecast for Laura issued Sunday morning? The same Sunday morning forecast showed Laura making landfall with winds of at least 100 mph, a Category 2 hurricane.

Source: CNN August 27, 2020 10:30 UTC