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
Down the west coast of florida, a warning that it could make landfall as a category three hurricane. bringing potentially catastrophic winds, heavy rain and flooding. multiple counties are now under evacuation orders, and thousands of national guard members have already been deployed. karen mcguinness is in the cnn weather center with a new forecast that is has just come in. karen, what is the latest. yes, laura, thanks so much. and we are continuing to watch this tropical storm. now, the last advisory came in at just about 30 minutes ago, and it still keeps ideally at about 70 miles an hour, it s situated just about over the yucatan strait, but it is very rapidly going to be pushing into the gulf of mexico. from there, it s going to push towards the north and the northeast. the time to make plans, to get your things in order, medicines, items for your children, what will you do should there be a storm surge? right now they re evacuations
The volume of destruction from that. but what i have noticed from this particular set of images on our loop here is that this is looking a little more unified. this is giving me some indication that perhaps as it goes and gets exposed more to open water and less interaction with cuba and through the yucatan strait, that we may see some fairly quick development here. tuesday is the day that we anticipate that this finally gets bumped up to hurricane intensity. and i say finally because it has been sitting down here just off the coast of yucatan and cuba for quite some time. but now the trend is on. it moves into that very warm water of the gulf of mexico. some of these water temperatures are around 30 degrees celsius or 3w 86 about 86 degrees s farenheit. but look at this, in the warm coastal waters of the big bend of florida, computer models
Deployed. karen maginnis is in the cnn weather center with a new forecast that s just come in. karen, what s the latest? thanks so much. we are continuing to watch this tropical storm. now, the last advisory came in just about 30 minutes ago. it still keeps idalia at about 70 miles per hour. it is situated over the yucatan strait. it is rapidly going to be pushing into the gulf of mexico. from there, it will push towards the north and the northeast. the time to make plans, to get your things in order, medicines, items for children, what should you do should there be a storm surge. right now, there s evacuations for zones a , the most qcriticl and prone to flooding. the commuter models are in agreement. they are suggesting this will make landfall in the big bend of florida. any change in the trajectory and
Cone. please just heed the warnings of your local officials. don t watch the news. florida governor ron desantis warning people that he expects power outages when the hurricane comes ashore this week. tropical storm adalia sis tht how you say it is rapidly making land fall. and some counties have declared local states of emergency ahead of the storm. karen maginnis is monitoring this tropical storm for us. and she joins us live from the cnn weather center in atlanta. karen, i ve experienced many of these florida hurricanes first hand. they can be extremely powerful. what can you tell us about the stage and where this may make landfall? it s exactly what you re saying, not so much right now, tropical storm intensity. it s sitting over the yucatan strait or the yucatan channel for quite some time.