Hurricane Delta made landfall on the US Gulf Coast Friday evening, the National Hurricane Center said, roaring ashore as a Category 2 storm with winds of 100 miles per hour (155 kilometers per hour).
As it hit Creole, Louisiana, Delta became the 10th named storm of the year to make US landfall, a record, meteorologists said.
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