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Michael has officially been upgraded to a category 4 hurricane, with sustained winds of 114 knots (131 mph)

As hurricane Michael continues to move northward, St. Tammany officials have closed sever roads around Lake Pontchartrain, due to flooding.

Michael's eye wall is beginning to form up as it closes on the Gulf Coast. The eye can be clearly seen in microwave as storms begin to form and winds increase. 

Eastward sides of hurricanes are notorious for storm surge. Why should hurricane Michael be any different?

Most of the predictive models for hurricane Michael, this morning are in consensus as to the general area of landfall, but not the intensity.

 Here is a predictive model showing what the cross-sectional view of hurricane Michael, as it approaches the coast of Florida, could look like.