The 11 p.m. update from the National Hurricane Center said Idalia is now expected to be an extremely dangerous Cat 4 storm when it makes landfall Wednesday in Florida, and stay a Cat 1 hurricane as it scrapes the Georgia, Carolina coast.
WYFF News 4 Chief Meteorologist Chris Justus said Hurricane Idalia gaining steam Tuesday night in the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico before slamming Florida, then scraping the Georgia and Carolina coastline.
Hurricane Idalia has been upgraded to a major Category 3 storm with maximum sustained winds near 120 mph. At 11 p.m. PT, Idalia sat about 100 miles south of the Florida coast. It is expected to make landfall somewhere in the Big Bend region of the state with a storm surge between 12 and 16 …