Tropical Disturbance 91L is drifting northeastward toward the Florida Panhandle and is strengthening. There is a slight risk 91L could become a tropical storm before making landfall early tomorrow on the Florida Panhandle.

In the weekly ENSO diagnostics report we take a look at the continued cooling in the subsurface equatorial Pacific Ocean signaling La Nina onset for Q4 of 2021.

Hurricane Larry is forecast to reach category-3 major hurricane intensity BEFORE reaching 84-85F water surface in the western North Atlantic basin. The concern is a larger and more intense storm may resist (initially) a north to northeast turn leaving the U.S. East Coast at risk of a nearby major hurricane.

In southeastern Louisiana, hurricane force wind was observed to the MS/LA state line and across most of southeast Louisiana including New Orleans to near Baton Rouge.