2023-08-29 19:52:00
NOAA satellite images already show this Tuesday the power of Hurricane Idalia and Hurricane Franklin. These are two hurricanes very close to each other that will affect the state of Florida and the west coast of the United States.
As Hurricane Idalia dumps rain and wind on Cuba and the Florida Keys as it moves over the Gulf of Mexico to meet the northwest of this southern state, storm surge and currents from Category 4 Hurricane Franklin are battering Bermuda and the southeast coast of the United States.
The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned this Tuesday that Idalia, category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale (of 5), is strengthening and might be an “extremely dangerous” hurricane with storm surges. storm surge, strong winds and torrential rains since before it made landfall in Florida on Wednesday.
Idalia is now displaying maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 km/h), even less strong than the 130 mph (210 km) of Franklin, whose center is expected to pass well northwest of Bermuda on Wednesday.
Franklin is regarding 370 miles (600 km) west-southwest of that British territory and is moving at 9 miles per hour (15 km/h) in a north-northeast direction.
Unlike Idalia, Franklin will gradually weaken over the next few days, but is currently still dangerous due to the swells and undertow it produces in Bermuda and on the southeast coast of the United States. Hurricane Franklin is a powerful Category 4 hurricane in the currently active Atlantic Ocean that made landfall as a tropical storm in the Dominican Republic last week.
Those sea conditions are going to extend as far north as the east coast of the US and Canada later today.
Virtually the entire west coast of Florida is under storm surge and hurricane warnings, and additional weather advisories are also in place for Pinar del Río and the Isla de la Juventud, in Cuba, and the southern part of the Florida Keys.
The forecast track indicates that the center of Idalia will move over the eastern Gulf of Mexico today, making landfall on Wednesday at some point between Longboat Key and Indian Pass, including Tampa Bay.
It will then cross the northern Florida peninsula and approach the US east coast on Thursday.
Heavy rains are expected today not only in western Cuba and the Florida coast on the Gulf of Mexico, but also in southeastern Georgia and the Carolinas.
A man crosses a flooded street today, in Havana (Cuba). Several of the areas in western Cuba have been affected by Hurricane Idalia. Photo: EFE
This rain can cause flash flooding and mudslides across western Cuba and parts of Florida’s west coast, the Florida Panhandle and southern Georgia today, then spreading into the eastern Carolinas.
The waves generated by Idalia are affecting parts of the southern coast of Cuba and eastern Yucatan (Mexico) and some tornadoes are possible in parts of the west coast of Florida.
Hurricane Idalia, combined with the regular tide, can flood normally dry coastal areas, with sea level rises of up to a maximum of 12 feet (3.6 meters) in the stretch of the Florida coast on the Gulf of Mexico that goes from the mouth of the Aucilla river to the town of Chassahowitzka.
Idalia is the third hurricane of the current hurricane season, which lasts until the end of October. (YO)
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