Theyll occasionally do all sorts of crazy veering around, backtracking, circling, even after landfall.
yes, I just looked and there is a frontal boundary north of it forcing is south
Hurricane Betsy, back in 1965, began going up the Atlantic coast, did a complete loopy-de-loop, then came back down to Miami, entered the Gulf of Mexico, and hit New Orleans. First hurricane I ever lived through. In those days, we didn’t evacuate. Thankfully, New Orleans didn’t experience the flooding that resulted from Katrina.