Hurricane Francine update | Here's the latest forecast and path

Hey there. I'm chief meteorologist Ben Pine with a look at your tropical update and the latest on hurricane Francine, a category one hurricane, the fourth hurricane of the 2024 season and about to make landfall along the central Louisiana coastline right now. It's about 90 to 100 miles off to the southwest of New Orleans where they are getting very, very heavy rain bands there, uh, through New Orleans. Now, after this storm makes landfall, it's gonna be cruising right up the Mississippi River val providing actually much needed rainfall over much of the deep south. But, uh, as it makes landfall, of course, some, some strong winds and some rough surf and heavy wave action, uh, winds maximum sustained right now at around 90 MPH. These are the latest stats from the National Hurricane Center. It's moving northeast at 17 MPH. So the actual storm is moving at a fairly good clip up to the northeast and that's why it'll make landfall very, very soon. Here is the latest track from the hurricane center and you can see it moving right up through Mississippi, very heavy rainfall through eastern Louisiana into Mississippi over the next couple of days. And then the, the remnants just kind of fizzle out here as it has really no steering currents or jet stream energy to move it to anywhere but slightly to the north. And this is all the way through Friday into Saturday, staying off to the southwest of much of the Ohio Valley, but it is close enough to give portions of our area locally here in Kentucky and Indiana a good chance for some soaking rainfall. I noticed the rain up and down the Mississippi River valley from Jackson, Mississippi up to Memphis, Tennessee. Now there is going to be a, a sharp cut off in the rain and that will be off just to the northeast of Louisville where Indianapolis and Cincinnati may get no rain whatsoever but uh pretty good soaking rain over much of the deep south where there is ongoing drought right now. So many areas, this is gonna be welcome rainfall. Of course, the conditions will be a lot rougher as it makes landfall over southern Louisiana.

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