It is now November, a month that has never had a tropical system make landfall in Louisiana, in records that go back to 1851. Then again, it is 2020.
"2020 has just been a train wreck on so many levels and I mean, obviously anything's possible," said Louisiana climatologist Barry Keim. "We know there is at least some possibility we could get hit in November."
Keim tells us as recently as 2009, Hurricane Ida almost made history.
"We had a storm, coming up from the Caribbean, headed to the mouth of the Mississippi River and then kind of veered off and made a landfall near Gulf Shores, Alabama, instead of hitting Louisiana," said Keim.
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Keim says the latest in the calendar a storm has even made landfall in Louisiana is 1985's Hurricane Juan, a storm that made landfall on the central Louisiana coast October 28, then moved south back into the Gulf of Mexico and made another Louisiana landfall on October 31, "and that's the latest storm that we've ever had on landfall here in Louisiana."
Will Eta or some other storm in this record season set a new Louisiana record? Historically, odds are against it, but Keim says anything is possible.