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Hurricane Zita began this Wednesday afternoon, devastating Louisiana in the southern United States, after entering the US continent from the coast of the state overlooking the Gulf of Mexico, accompanied by winds of 175 km / hour, according to the National Center Hurricane.
Zeta, the 11th storm to hit the United States this year, made landfall from the town of Cocodre, 100 km south of New Orleans in southeastern Louisiana, a state hit this year by seven storms of varying degrees.
Zeta is a Category 2 hurricane on an ascending scale of five degrees.
Authorities issued a hurricane warning covering areas stretching 300 kilometers from Morgan, Louisiana, to the Mississippi-Alabama border.
And the US National Hurricane Center, based in Miami, Florida, warned that the hurricane, in addition to strong winds and heavy rain, would cause huge waves and rise in sea levels.
And in September, meteorologists began using the Greek alphabet to name hurricanes after exhausting their annual pre-prepared list of Latin names.
With the warming of the ocean surface, the strength of hurricanes increases, according to scientists who expect an increase in the percentage of hurricanes in the fourth and fifth most destructive categories.
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