The extent of the flooding, destruction and death caused by Hurricane Idalia is now being reported, which struck Florida’s Big Bend coastline on Wednesday morning and moved into Georgia and the Carolinas later in the day.
A day after Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend Area as a major Category 3 storm another tropical storm has formed in the Atlantic Ocean.
Satellite images are showing the devastating impact Hurricane Idalia had on Florida’s Big Bend area. Idalia made landfall just before 8 a.m. Wednesday in Florida’s Big Bend region as a Category 3 hurricane with 125 mph sustained winds. Idalia was downgraded to a tropical storm by Wednesday afternoon. However, it continues to produce heavy rainfall…
it is just gaining more strength, so going from 1:10 to 1:30, just in the next nine hours is really going to be an impressive intensification here as the category four, right there, not that far from all of our reporters that are up there in that big bend area. here is the rainfall on the radar, that actually can be seen from tampa and also from key west. some of these storms on this outer band, they could contain some tornadoes tonight. make sure you have a way to get your warnings tonight. something else here, though, i think. 110 mile per hour winds and even gusts all the way across the florida georgia line and then, finally, a hurricane still for jekyll, new brunswick, jacksonville florida. because the storm is going to be moving so quickly, not losing a lot of strength, those winds will stay with the storm. and so, therefore, the winds will continue to knock trees down, knocked power lines down. this will be a massive cleanup
we go later on into the afternoon. could be supporting winds of maybe 80 miles an hour? at least that s the forecast. so all these regions from florida to georgia, south carolina, north carolina are under states of emergency. flooding is still a high potential here. you will probably lose power in a lot of these coastal areas. look how some of these stronger bands are expected to move onshore. already we re seeing a very large tornado watch, which goes into 6:00 a.m. across a good portion of western areas of the florida peninsula. up here in this big bend area, it s going to be a monster, because this is very low-lying areas. i looked at the elevations. maybe 5 feet, maybe 10 feet. but the storm surge could be 12 to 16 feet. it is unsurvivable if you re caught in something like that.