Coordinate Your Verb Tenses
rogersgeorge on December 18th, 2020
Take a look at this sentence:
As forecasters predicted, the storm has weakened slightly before making landfall, as it meets cooler waters and less favorable wind conditions near the Louisiana coast.
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/09/922148939/hurricane-deltas-winds-hit-120-mph-as-storm-approaches-louisiana-coast
So the sentence starts with the simple past, switches to present perfect, and concludes with the present. This is not good writing.
Generally speaking, pick a tense and stick with it. Re-read the sentence using the simple past each time. Now the sentence is better, isn’t it?
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