Hurricane Helene is predicted to intensify into a major hurricane (Category 3 or higher) before making landfall on Florida's northwestern coast Thursday evening. The storm is expected to bring an “unsurvivable” storm surge, damaging winds, heavy rains, and flash floods across the southeastern U.S.
Helene is expected to be a major hurricane — meaning a Category 3 or higher — when it makes landfall on Florida 's northwestern coast Thursday evening.threatening an “unsurvivable” storm surge in northwestern parts of the state as well as damaging winds, rains and flash floods hundreds of miles inland across much of the southeastern U.S., forecasters said.
Early Thursday, Helene was about 350 miles southwest of Tampa and moving north at 12 mph with top sustained winds of 90 mph . Forecasters said it should become a major Category 3 or higher hurricane, meaning winds would top 110 mph . The storm formed Tuesday in the Caribbean Sea. In Cuba, the government preventively shut off power in some communities as waves as high as 16 feet slammed Cortes Bay. And in the Cayman Islands, schools closed and residents pumped water from flooded homes.
Supermarkets, gas stations, hardware stores and other places in Tallahassee were busy Wednesday as people made their final purchases ahead of Hurricane Helene.“I do live in an area where it doesn’t take so much for the power to go out,” he said. For Atlanta, Helene could be the worst strike on a major Southern inland city in 35 years, said University of Georgia meteorology professor Marshall Shepherd.
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