TS Delta moving WNW toward GoM

A tropical system near the Cayman Islands was upgraded to Tropical Storm Delta on Monday. With winds of 40 mph, near Jamaica, it is moving WNW at 9 mph. The storm is expected to move into the Gulf of Mexico later this week, then strengthen into a hurricane and make landfall on the northern Gulf Coast by Friday morning. (Source: Sun Herald 10/05/20)

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SKIP ADThe Mississippi Coast is in the “cone of uncertainty” for now and the NHC said “there is large uncertainty” in Delta’s track and intensity forecast because landfall is still four to five days away.0“There is a risk of dangerous storm surge, wind, and rainfall hazards, across the coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle,” the NHC said in its 7 a.m. update.