(Bloomberg) -- Helene grew to a Category 4 hurricane as it rapidly gained speed on its way toward Florida’s west coast, where the massive storm threatens to ...
-- Helene grew to a Category 4 hurricane as it rapidly gained speed on its way toward Florida ’s west coast, where the massive storm threatens to push a wall of water onshore and rake a large swath of the southeastern US with tree-snapping power.The storm’s top winds are holding steady at 130 miles per hour but could increase in the coming hours, the US National Hurricane Center said at 8 p.m. local time. Helene is expected to make landfall late Thursday near St.
Helene’s tropical-storm-force winds now extend 310 miles, which means as the hurricane’s eye crosses Florida’s shores, its outer winds will have pushed beyond Atlanta. Nearly 500,000 customers are without power across the southeast US, according to PowerOutage.us, with the majority in Florida. Helene is expected to bring intense thunderstorms, which will likely generate “spin-up tornadoes” far inland, said Jennifer Collins, a geosciences professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Those tornadoes, which tend to arrive with little warning, occur when downdrafts of rain-cooled air create fierce winds at a storm’s leading edge.
The storm’s remnants also have the potential to damage 10% of US cotton production, mainly in eastern Alabama and Georgia, according to Commodity Weather Group. Cotton futures have risen this month on weather risks and on Tuesday reached the highest price since late June. “SNL”'s Marcello Hernández Says He Loves Punkie Johnson, Molly Kearney and Chloe Troast: 'Sad' to See Them Exit
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