Tropical Storm Idalia continues to strengthen as it nears the western tip of Cuba as of Monday afternoon. The 2 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center (NHC) shows the storm has 70 mph sustained winds with gusts to 75 mph putting her just shy of Category 1 Hurricane status. Idalia will continue to move north around 8 mph through…
Tropical Storm Idalia continues to strengthen as it nears the western tip of Cuba as of Monday afternoon. The 2 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center shows the storm has 70 mph sustained winds with gusts to 75 mph putting her just shy of Category 1 Hurricane status.Hurricane Idalia is expected to be a major hurricane by the time it makes landfall in Florida
Idalia will continue to move north around 8 mph through tonight, then pick up a bit of forward speed and shift slightly to the north-northeast tomorrow and Wednesday, with her eye set to make landfall along the west coast of Florida, perhaps near Cedar Key, sometime Wednesday morning as a MAJOR hurricane .Residents and property owners along the west coast of Florida should expect major wind impacts from this storm.
Floridians and those farther north along the Gulf Coast continue to make preparations as life-threatening storm surge, damaging winds, tornadoes and localized flooding will occur through midweek. Idalia will then curve northeast, paralleling the coast of Georgia and South Carolina bringing flash flooding and strong wind gusts through Thursday afternoon. After that, Idalia will move east and pass likely north of Bermuda by the start of the weekend.
Hurricane Franklin is not expected to make landfall, but is currently swirling as a powerful Category 4 storm Franklin is such a large and powerful storm that the entire East Coast will feel an effect in the form of rip currents and dangerous surf and swell. Here at home, expect building surf and seas through midweek with an increased risk of rip currents, particularly along the south coast to Cape Cod.
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