Hurricane Laura made landfall Thursday morning in southwest Louisiana as an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 storm, forecasters said.

Officials begged residents to evacuate ahead of Laura. But those who didn't leave should put their vital information in a plastic bag and pray.

It was the most destructive storm in the record-smashing 2020 Atlantic hurricane season. Here's a rundown of Hurricane ...

The August predictions were: Probability of named storm tracking within 50 miles ... said Acting NOAA Administrator Laura Grimm. Officials regularly encourage Florida residents to prepare for storms ...

"The Tropics are heating up with 3 systems that we are monitoring," the agency warned, as it shared a map of the weather ...