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    • David PolášekD
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      Hurricane Idalia: Update August 30, 2:00 pm UTC

      Idalia weakened to a cat. 2 after landfall, and still poses a great danger to all residents in its path. Heavy rains, flooding, and storm surges are still continuing.

      Watch Hurricane Idalia Live with Hurricane Tracker🌀

      Image: Last 6 hours before landfall during sunrise. Satellite (visible) imagery with lightning.
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      Hurricane Idalia: Update August 30, 11:00 am UTC

      Hurricane Idalia makes landfall in Florida. Briefly, it was cat.4 on the Saffir-Simpson scale, but cat.3 on landfall.

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      Hurricane Idalia: Update August 30, 5:30 am UTC

      Hurricane Idalia has strengthened to cat. 3 and is forecast to be cat. 4 when making landfall in less than 8 hours.

      The NHC describes the possible impacts of the hurricane below.

      Hurricane Idalia: Update August 29, 9:30 am UTC

      Idalia has strengthened to the level of a Category 1 hurricane and is approaching Florida across the Gulf of Mexico. The NHC forecast, which is more inaccurate from our observations so far in North America, is that it will be a Category 3 hurricane.

      Tropical Storm Idalia: Update August 28, 6:30 am UTC

      A new system is forming off the coast of Mexico that has already reached tropical storm strength on the Saffir-Simpson scale and has the potential for further intensification in the coming days as its track heads into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The name is Idalia.

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      Individual NHC, ECMWF, and Met Office forecasts so far vary widely in predicting the strength of the storm. From previous systems, we can see the higher accuracy of the NHC within North America, and we are curious to see what the accuracy of the individual models will be. However, all of the models agree on a trajectory heading towards northern Florida around Wednesday morning (UTC).

      The worst-case scenario so far is predicted by the NHC, which is currently forecasting a cat. 2 hurricane just before landfall in Florida.

      https://www.windy.com/-Weather-radar-radar?radar,29.803,-82.782,7,internal

      David Polášek (Windy.com)

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        chief78cj7 @David Polášek | Premium
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        How can we see storm surge for an event like this. I have friends in the area and the storm surge is bad, but I cannot see how to visualize this unfortunately. Any help is appreciated.

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        • idefix37I
          idefix37 Sailor Moderator @chief78cj7
          last edited by idefix37

          @chief78cj7
          Storm surge is not shown in Windy. But you can see the warnings in the Weather warnings layer :

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            HAN HAN 2150e2de-2c41-427a-919a-9dc179524c2a @idefix37
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            @idefix37 Florida hurricane is very serious,and the wind pressure design in buildings is very important,that's the reason why they have a Dade certificate to evaluate and approve the building materials there.

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            • BrodyStormChaserB
              BrodyStormChaser Meteorologist @chief78cj7
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              @chief78cj7 yes sir so we are adding more upgrades for the hurrcaine Tacker thank you

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