Hurricane Rita Now a Category Four

Posted on September 23, 2005

Hurricane Rita is now a category four hurricane sustained winds of 135mph. Rita is closing in on landfall which is expected to be somewhere between Galveston and the Texas-Louisiana border. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has slowly been moving the forecast more to the east over the past couple days. If landfall is closer to the TX/LA border as anticipated then Houston should be spared the worst of the storm but cities like Beaumont and Port Athur will get the worst. This page on the NHC's website shows local hurricane impacts for specific counties in the path of Hurricane Katrina.

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