Hurricane Isaias Barrels Toward Florida

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The last thing Florida needs, in the middle of a pandemic, is a hurricane, but it is what it is. The earliest “I” storm of any hurricane season is barreling toward the US Southeast, with Florida first in its path. Hurricane Isaias promises to be a powerful storm as it feeds off those warm Gulf waters on its way north.

Gov. Ron DeSantis has declared a state of emergency for all of Florida’s counties along the Atlantic shoreline as this big boomer makes its way from the Bahamas. At the moment the center of the storm is tracking just east of the Florida coast.

DeSantis also sent Trump a letter Friday requesting a “pre-landfall emergency” declaration, which would offer direct federal assistance beyond what Florida can provide.

As of 5 am ET, Isaias was deemed a Category 1 storm, with winds up to 85mph, though that could strengthen as the storm moves over warm Gulf Stream waters.

A National Hurricane Center alert indicates Isaias, set to approach southeastern Florida later today and into Sunday, could cause storm surges of up to 4 feet in certain parts of the state. Meanwhile, heavy rain could cause “potentially life-threatening flash and urban flooding.”

The governors of North Carolina and Virginia also declared states of emergency, with Govs. Roy Cooper and Ralph Northam saying their respective states could see Isaias hit their coasts as early as Monday.

AccuWeather notes that before Isaias, Hurricane Irene was the earliest “I” storm of any recorded hurricane season, forming on Aug. 7, 2005.

We wish all of our Florida friends the best.

Edited via Newser.

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Linda
3 years ago

If people have to shelter together, in a world of Covid, that could be very bad. Too bad, back when Al Gore won the election, the Supreme Court let the incompetent loser climate denier play president, and now we have a repeat performance with failure to take climate change seriously , because (unlike Hillary) they don’t believe in science.

Bill Formby
3 years ago

Trump will probably have it going over Alabama again. I have been through my share of both hurricanes and tornadoes and neither of those are and fun. The last one was a cat 5 tornado here in Tuscaloosa some years ago and there are still scars from it left on the city. I guess I could move out of Tornado Alley but then it would be some thing else. The idiots who do not believe in global warming or climate change need to get on the right side of science before we are all wiped from the face of the earth,

Glenn Geist
3 years ago

Waiting is absolutely the worst part and because it so often turns aside at the last minute and so often changes course for the worse when you thought you were safe, you have to pay attention. In 2017, after waiting and waiting Irma decided to come directly over my house as a category 5, so we grabbed the dog and headed for the west coast. a day later Irma decided to do the same thing and chased us all the way to Pensacola beach (that’s a long way) It never came near my house. But a cat 1 and a cat five are very different. I don’t run from a cat one. It sets a bad precedent and encourages the Hurricane god.

I still don’t know where the Spanish Isaiah will or won’t go. The last two forecasts show it just offshore on the Atlantic coast which will make for a very nasty day tomorrow – but how can I write it off when it might turn left or right or even peter out?

I’ve been told Santa Fe is a nice place.

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