Karl Becomes 6th Hurricane of the Season

At 11am this morning, Tropical Storm Karl was upgraded to hurricane status ....making Karl the 6th hurricane to develop this season. Karl made landfall yesterday morning on the Yucatan Peninsula as a strong tropical storm...traversed the peninsula and emerged into the Bay of Campeche early this morning where it has been gaining strength on it's path west-bound. Hurricane Karl has winds of 75 mph and will likely continue to strengthen before making a second landfall on the central Mexican coastline late Friday night.

-Lauren