Currently Eta is a tropical depression located over Honduras, where it is dropping torrential amounts of rain after coming onshore in Nicaragua as a major hurricane. But this may be just the beginning of Eta’s journey. The National Hurricane Center is currently forecasting Eta to move to the northeast back over the Caribbean Sea, where sea surface temperatures are warm enough that the remaining spin could grow back into a tropical storm by Saturday morning. Then it is predicted to move north over Cuba and towards southern Florida by mid-day on Sunday.
After that there is a lot of uncertainty as to where it will go, but it could end up back in the Gulf of Mexico. From there it could go almost anywhere along the Gulf Coast. There is a small but not zero chance that we could see it cross Alabama and/or Georgia as a storm later in the week. Since it is 2020, I am guessing that it will hit Louisiana, but that is just a wild and unscientific guess, not based on any actual science. At this point, there are no signs that it will grow back into a strong hurricane, but even a wet tropical storm could be bad news for cotton and peanut farmers who have been trying to get their harvest done between the rounds of storms. We will know a lot more about the storm track in a few days, but keep it in mind when you are planning for next week.
