Global News published this video item, entitled “Hurricane Delta blows through Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, expected to hit U.S. coast by Friday” – below is their description.
Hurricane Delta strengthened on Tuesday and made landfall overnight as a major Category 2 storm near Mexico’s Caribbean resorts of Cancun and Tulum, threatening “extremely dangerous” sea surges, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) has said. The hurricane was located about 20 miles (35 km) south of Cancun, Mexico, packing maximum sustained winds of 110 miles per hour (175 km per hour). The 25th named Atlantic storm this year, intensified, with catastrophic winds expected to tear across Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula before taking aim at the U.S. Gulf Coast later in the week. Delta is expected to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast between Louisiana and Florida by Friday. A U.S. landfall would break a record that dates back to 1916 for the most named storms to hit the United States, another milestone in a year marked by repeated natural disasters ranging from floods, to wildfires to tornadoes. Delta forced the closure of 29.2% of offshore crude oil production in the U.S.-regulated northern Gulf of Mexico by midday Tuesday. Oil workers were fleeing offshore platforms and producers were shutting in production on Tuesday, some for the fifth time this year. For more info, please go to https://globalnews.ca/news/7382948/hurricane-delta-mexico-landfall/ Subscribe to Global News Channel HERE: http://bit.ly/20fcXDc Like Global News on Facebook HERE: http://bit.ly/255GMJQ Follow Global News on Twitter HERE: http://bit.ly/1Toz8mt Follow Global News on Instagram HERE: https://bit.ly/2QZaZIB #GlobalNews
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