Hurricane Zeta continued to strengthen its blustery winds Wednesday morning as it stewed in the Gulf of Mexico with it forecast to make landfall somewhere along Louisiana's coastline, where four other storms have already made landfall this year.
Zeta's maximum sustained winds increased to 90 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center's 8 a.m. update. The Category 1 hurricane is 265 miles southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River and is moving north at 17 mph. Its hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 35 miles from its center and tropical-storm-force winds reach up to 150 miles.
