There is something brewing.

Two things actually..

Marco and Laura–at press time–are both forecast to hit Louisiana by the National Hurricane Center within just days.. There are some forecasts pushing the storms further to the west.. Tonight the GFS model is putting Laura in Eastern Texas as a CAT 3. . .

Models will be models.

But this news tonight is dire, to a degree.. local officials are no doubt in chaos. Evacuate now? Wait to see some more forecasts?

At the time this is written, here are both *Official* forecasts from the National Hurricane Center:

Marco will be first, on Monday. It is forecast to remain a hurricane until landfall:

And despite some prognostications showing Laura move to the west, the NHC is remaining with a Louisiana strike at the time this is written:

All within 48 to 72 hours of this post..

All during the same week when the Republican National Committee will launch their convention and Donald Trump will accept the nomination of his party…

What will the media cover!?

This is how an Associated Press dispatch tonight reported the events for posterity:

Two tropical storms advanced across the Caribbean on Saturday as potentially historic threats to the U.S. Gulf Coast, one dumping rain on Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and Hispaniola while the other swept into the gulf through the gap between Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula and Cuba.
Tropical Storms Laura and Marco were both projected to approach Louisiana’s coast at or close to hurricane force just two days apart in the next several days. A hurricane watch was issued for the New Orleans metro area, which was pummeled by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005.
Two hurricanes have never appeared in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time, according to records going back to at least 1900, said Colorado State University hurricane researcher Phil Klotzbach. The last time two tropical storms were in the Gulf together was in 1959, he said.

But in 1959, those two storms were NOT hurricanes. This time, they will be.

Even more strange when you consider, we are heading into the 15th anniversary week of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans in 2005..

This same week!

It is rare for there to be two tropical storms in the Gulf of Mexico at the same time. According to NOAA records, this has only been recorded twice: June 18, 1959 and Sept. 5, 1933…

LOUISIANA ASKING FOR HELP BEFORE THE STORMS!

Prior to either storms making landfall, Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards requested a Federal Emergency Declaration from the White House on Saturday.

“This is unlike anything we have seen, with two hurricanes expected to impact our state nearly back to back,” he said. “This may mean that people will have to shelter in place for more than 72 hours and that there may not be time to do things like restore lost power between the two storms.”

“We are in unprecedented times,” Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves said at a news conference Saturday as he declared a state of emergency. “We are dealing with not only two potential storms in the next few hours, we are also dealing with COVID-19.”