Hurricane Idalia made landfall in Florida's lightly populated Big Bend region on August 30 as a Category 3 storm with winds of at least 130 mph (209 kph). The storm surge could reach up to 15 feet (4.5 meters). The Big Bend is where the peninsula merges into the Panhandle,...
Evacuation zones Floridacategorizes areas into different evacuation zones, with Zone A typically being the most vulnerable to flooding during a storm to Zone F typically being the last to evacuate. Florida residents are urged to check if they live in an evacuation zone by using a map on the F...
Fla. The storm was moving north-northeast at 18 mph with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour. The hurricane center said Idalia's eye was moving "just inland" from the Big Bend Coast.
Gonzales said heavy rains during Hurricane Idalia a year ago got blown under his doors and cracked a window. Some of the carpet inside got so wet he had to replace it.
These forecasts provide information for emergency operations and evacuation along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts. However, both SLOSH and ADCIRC forecasts are based on two-dimensional barotropic models. SLOSH is further constrained in that it uses a coarse grid resolution (on the order of a ...