Forecasters said Hurricane Helene will intensify rapidly over the next 24 hours and grow huge as it approaches landfall on Florida’s Panhandle. Residents began to flee ahead of the storm.
Here’s the latest forecast track of Hurricane Helene, which is forecast to bring catastrophic storm surge to Florida’s Gulf coast. Forecasters said Hurricane Helene will intensify further than previously forecast, saying it may reach Category 4 strength before slamming ashore on Florida’s Gulf coast near the Big Bend region. Regardless of where theBecause Helene is expected to be a wide storm, the entire coast of Florida is under various warnings.
“There’s clearly a pathway for this to rapidly intensify prior to making landfall,” DeSantis said at a news conference in Tampa. The storm is so large that areas roughly 90 miles north of the Georgia-Florida line could expect hurricane conditions. “Considerable to locally catastrophic flash and urban flooding is likely for northwestern and northern Florida and the Southeast through Friday,” said the NHC.
Meanwhile, a tropical depression is likely to form by later this week from a tropical wave in the far eastern Atlantic, forecasters said. The system is expected to move west to west-northwest.
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