Tropical Storm Idalia formed Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico on a potential track to come ashore as a hurricane in the southern U.S., the National Hurricane Center said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/forecasters-tropical-storm-idalia-forms-155050125.html
I got my hopes up for rain and cooler weather in Texas, but nooooo. Florida wins again
Quote from: Zimmy on August 27, 2023, 04:51:07 PMI got my hopes up for rain and cooler weather in Texas, but nooooo. Florida wins again
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This thing's starting to look serious. It could hit the Gulf coast of Florida as a Category 3 hurricane anywhere from Tampa to Tallahassee. My thoughts are with our Florida-based UFOZS members. Forum visitors in that area: that goes for you too.
Stay safe and please provide sit-reps as you are able.
Hurricane Idalia officially made its landfall as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday morning.
Severe Weather Team 2 Meteorologist Brian Monahan says the landfall happened at 7:45 a.m. at Keaton Beach in the Florida Big Bend. It is the first major hurricane to make landfall in this part of Florida going back to 1851.
While Idalia weakened from a Category 4 to Category 3 before its landfall, catastrophic and life-threatening impacts are expected with the storm.
Monahan says Idalia is forecasted to weaken to a Category 2 or Category 1 as it moves across south Georgia.