Tropical Storm Idalia is forecast to turn into hurricane before striking Florida’s Gulf Coast Tuesday night into Wednesday. The National Hurricane Center is now explicitly forecasting the storm to make landfall as a Category 3 major hurricane.
said the storm’s exact path remains unclear, and he urged everyone on the state’s Gulf Coast to remain vigilant. He emphasized that many of those living in the storm’s path will lose electricity for an extended period, which is why the state will position utility workers on Monday to respond.
In addition to hurricane and storm surge watches in effect from south of Tampa toward the Panhandle, a hurricane warning covers the western Cuba province of Pinar del Rio. Tropical storm watches blanket the remainder of Southwest Florida around the Fort Myers area, and also include the lower Florida Keys.
“The bottom line is that rapid intensification is becoming increasingly likely before landfall, and the [Hurricane Center] forecast now explicitly indicates it,” on Tuesday night, the agency wrote. Most weather models indicate odds of rapid intensification are between 5 and 10 times greater than average.
, are probable in a small zone near where the center crosses the coast. They’ll be found in the eyewall, or a doughnut-like wall of wind that encircles the eerily-calm eye. The National Weather Service may issue dire “extreme wind warnings” when destructive eyewall winds are expected to move ashore. They activate the emergency alert system like tornadoes, and are meant as a final call-to-action targeted at those who didn’t evacuate before life-threatening conditions arrive.
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