Idalia expected to hit Florida as a Category 3 hurricane on Wednesday.
|Tropical Storm Idalia is expected to enter the southern Gulf of Mexico and become a hurricane on Monday. It is now forecast to be at Category 3 strength when it makes landfall in Florida on Wednesday. The forecast cone shows only where the center of the storm is expected to go. Wind, rain and storm surge could be felt far outside of the cone.as it neared the southern Gulf of Mexico on Monday.
So what does that mean for Alabama? The National Weather Service offices that covered the state -- in Mobile, Birmingham and Tallahassee, Fla., where keeping a close watch on the storm on Monday. No part of the state was in the forecast track cone as of Monday, but that doesn’t mean Alabama won’t feel that a hurricane is nearby.But the biggest and potentially most deadly hazard will be the threat for rip currents along the coast. The weather service in Mobile is already forecasting a high risk for rip currents along the Alabama and northwest Florida beaches starting on Tuesday night and lasting into at least Thursday.
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