After a day like a hurricane, Tropical Storm approached Marco Louisiana for an expected landfall at noon Monday, while Tropical Storm Laura was predicted to move over the south coast of Cuba the day before entering the Gulf of Mexico and heading toward the same line of the U.S. coast later in the week, likely as a hurricane.
Laura caused the deaths of at least 11 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti, while seizing power and causing flooding in the two peoples that share the island of Hispaniola.
Marco had grown into a hurricane early Sunday, but the National Hurricane Center said its sustained wind dropped to 70 mph (110 km / h) after nightfall. The center warned that Marco could still cause life-threatening storm surges and dangerous winds along the Gulf Coast.
Marco traveled about 115 miles (115 km / h) on Monday morning about 115 miles (southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River) to the northwest.
Laura lay Monday morning about 175 miles (285 kilometers) east-southeast of Cayo Largo, and had maximum sustained winds of 100 km / h. It was moving from the west-northwest at 21 mph (33 km / h) and was predicted to intensify Tuesday morning in a hurricane, as it followed a path that would likely take Wednesday night to the coast of Louisiana, forecasters said.
In the wake of Laura’s passage through the Caribbean, authorities reported at least 11 dead on Sunday.
Haitian civil protection officials say they have received reports that a 10-year-old girl was killed when a tree fell on a house in the southern coastal city of Anse-a-Pitres, on the border with the Dominican Republic. The Haitian prime minister said at least eight other people had died and two were missing. In the Dominican Republic, relatives told reporters that a collapsed wall killed a mother and her young son.
Hundreds of thousands were without power in the Dominican Republic amid severe flooding in both countries.
Despite Marco’s weakening, a storm surge warning remained in place from Morgan City, Louisiana, to Ocean Springs, Mississippi. A tropical storm warning included Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana, and metropolitan New Orleans.
A gust of up to 1.2 feet (1.2 meters) was forecast for parts of the coast of Louisiana and Mississippi.
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