Hurricane Zeta has reached the coastline of southeastern Louisiana, making landfall about 4:10 p.m. CDT as a Category 2 storm.
The storm’s maximum sustained winds were around 110 mph, with stronger gusts, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Hurricane warnings were in effect from Morgan City, La., to the Mississippi-Alabama border, and included the New Orleans metropolitan area as well as Lake Pontchartrain and Lake Maurepas. Tropical storm warnings were in effect from the Mississippi-Alabama border to the border between Walton and Bay counties in Florida.
