impacted by weather systems worse than tropical storm strength. they had an drea in 2013. it s been a hot minute, 10 years since they had bona fide storm know cans move over gainesville. this is such a powerful storm and that forward motion, it will hold on to hurricane status and have stronger winds for a longer time. look back to other storms, where we have had hurricane warnings places like shreveport, louisiana, tracking systems piling into the gulf coast of louisiana temperature is impressive when you see hurricane warnings extendin in the land, gainesville and tallahassee and we ll check in with are brandi campbell later temperature is dark, the trees
united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez. we begin with breaking news. what was tropical storm idalia is now hurricane idalia. the storm expected to get stronger as it turns toward florida. karen maginnis is live in the cnn weather center. what is the latest on the storm s track? we knew it would get stronger and here we see it officially crossing in to hurricane status. it finally got out of the trapped zone of the yucatan strait and is now over more open water. certainly the northern border of it, the edge of this certainly looks a little more like it becomes better organized. once it moves even further away, we ll see probably a rapid inside if i indication because very warm water here, the water temperatures are around 85 degrees. higher closer toward the coast. warmer water persists there and
per hour storm bringing rain showers already, with outer bands to the puerto rico area. it will not hit puerto rico directly. it will go do the south of that. here is what this official track does. this storm is going to run right along, parallel to all of the islands. when a storm is over land it cannot strengthen. we will see a lot of interaction here. so a lot of rain and wind here with the islands. that keeps it from becoming a major hurricane if we do see that. if it goes further to the south, it has more chance to strengthen to a bigger storm. the official forecast by friday morning brings us to hurricane status right here an the dominican republic and crossing into haiti and running threw cuba. the area has a lot of mountains and that shreds the storm apart. look at what it does by monday morning at 8:00, we are right here, around this western side of florida. if this of mys to the east, we are cutting it all across the
rick? latest update coming in. up to 2 miles per hour. and it s also moving slightly more towards the east at this point. very heavy rain long island. moving in across parts of southeastern areas of massachusetts. good news is winds have come down to 7 a miles per hour. so barely hanging on to hurricane status. down to a tropical storm strength probably by the 11:00 advisory as it moves closest in and across the southeastern area of massachusetts. i want to talk about what else is out there. we have been looking at thee fiona and it s kind of disappeared it was right there headed toward bermuda. not going to cause many problems. jon, we have got another storm out there back across parts of the atlantic. that s it. it potentially reinvigorate and become gas ton again. we could be dealing with another hurricane by the time we get five to six days now. maybe sphwhr a similar track we saw to earl. we will be watching that. and behind that storm there is another wave coming off the coast of