The storm could rapidly gain strength over the eastern gulf before making landfall Tuesday into Wednesday.
that the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season was favored to be above average due to extremely warm sea surface temperatures. Hurricane activity historically picks up markedly toward late August into September and, right on cue, a formidable threat is brewing.On Sunday morning, the system — centered about 80 miles east-southeast of Cozumel — became as tropical storm as its peak winds increased from 35 to 40 mph.
The initial question was whether the system featured a coherent closed circulation, or low-level swirl, but radar out of Cancún depicted a well-defined central vortex and Hurricane Hunter aircraft sampled winds commensurate with a tropical storm.Over the next 12 to 18 hours, Idalia will remain largely stationary, wobbling a little bit but covering little ground. Then it will begin to work north.
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