Hurricane Season

As Hurricane Delta takes aim at the Louisiana coast and all of Acadiana, the Lafayette Parish School System announces it will close all schools and facilities on Thursday and Friday.

The drive-thru assistance and mobile registration centers should reopen tomorrow, weather permitting.

Residents in storm-damaged areas of the state may still apply for assistance to replace food lost in Hurricane Laura.

All items collected today will immediately be taken to Lake Charles families in need.

The president is making the trip two days after the Category 4 storm slammed the Gulf Coast, leaving at least 14 dead and wreaking havoc with severe winds and flooding.

The prevalent winds are still coming from the south/southwest and, as they do, they are pulling water from the Gulf of Mexico inland.

Lafayette has several resources available via telephone contact or via their website.

There are 5 different skycams in Lake Charles, Louisiana and areas around the city.

Relief efforts will look a little different this season due to COVID-19.

Tropical forecasters are keeping a close eye on two tropical systems that could affect the Gulf of Mexico.

The system was downgraded as of 4 am this morning. It is expected to move rapidly away from the state later today.

Cristobal is expected to move out into the Gulf later today and restrengthen as it heads toward a Louisiana landfall late Sunday night or early Monday morning.

The second named storm of 2020, Tropical Storm Bertha, formed today off the coast of the Carolinas prior to the official start of the 2020 hurricane season beginning June 1st.

State Climatologist Barry Keim is keeping his fingers crossed that November's streak for no hurricanes holds true.

This is the first named storm of the season.

Fortunately for Louisiana residents most of the heavy rains and coastal flooding problems that were predicted with Bill's arrival were very short lived.

Heavy rains and coastal flooding are likely for many southwest Louisiana residents today.

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Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser has declared a state of emergency today as Tropical Storm Karen makes its way towards landfall. A mandatory evacuation has been called starting Friday, October, 4 at 6:00pm for the east bank of Plaquemines Parish along with all Plaquemines Parish communities with no levee protection...