Forecasters said the risk for rip currents will likely increase next week along Alabama and northwest Florida beaches, and rough seas will also be likely. alwx
Tropical Storm Ian's path shifted just slightly to the west on Saturday morning, and forecasters said more track shifts will be possible in the next few days as the storm strengthens. It is still expected to make landfall on Florida's west coast next week as a Category 2 or 3 hurricane. The white "cone of uncertainty" shows the areas where the just center of the storm could go, not the entire storm itself.
The forecast path shows Ian crossing over Cuba and moving into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico by Tuesday. The official track has what could be a Category 2 or 3 hurricane turning more to the east and making landfall somewhere on the west coast of the Florida peninsula by late Wednesday or early Thursday.
Forecasters noted that computer models show a 180-nautical-mile spread in possible tracks at the 72-hour point, and the cone of uncertainty stretched from the eastern Florida Panhandle all the way eastward into the Atlantic on Saturday.
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