ST. PETERSBURG-Several key bridges and roadways around the Tampa Bay area closed Wednesday morning due to winds or flooding asHurricane Idaliamakes landfall to our north. For a list of road closures in Hillsborough County, clickhere. The Howard Frankland Bridge across Tampa Bay has reopened as ...
"Hurricane Idalia will likely be an unprecedented event for many locations in the Florida Big Bend. Looking back through recorded history, NO major hurricanes have ever moved through the Apalachee Bay. When you try to compare this storm to others, DON'T. No one has seen this,...
Tropical Storm Idalia, left, at the western tip of Cuba and Hurricane Franklin, right, over the western Atlantic, early on August 29, 2023.National Hurricane Center / NOAA Idalia was forecast to develop into a major hurricane over northeastern Gulf of Mexico by early Wednesday," the center ...
The congregation at the church in Perry, in Florida's Taylor County, had been due to move back after its rebuilding in the wake of last year's Hurricane Idalia. But strong winds brought by storm Helene have seen its brand- new roof peeled off and strewn acr...
Hurricane Idalia (2023) – a hurricane that had a similar trajectory Hurricane Helene (2024) – another hurricane that had a similar path and intensity Hurricane Milton (2024) – another October Gulf of Mexico Category 5 hurricane that also struck Florida Notes ^ The position of Michael's Cate...
10 p.m. EDT near the mouth of the Aucilla River in the Big Bend area of Florida’s Gulf Coast. It had maximum sustained winds estimated at 140 mph. That location was only about 20 miles northwest of where Hurricane Idalia came ashore last year at nearly the same ferocity and caused ...
Hillsborough County and Franklin County have now issued mandatory evacuation orders for residents in the possible path of Idalia, bringing the number of localities in Florida with mandatory or voluntary evacuations to at least 10. “Zone A is under a mandatory evacuation notice. Those living in...
Idalia has rapidly intensified over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico and is forecast to become an “extremely dangerous” Category 4 hurricane as it bears down on Florida’s west coast. The storm was packing 110 mph winds as of 11 p.m. ET, already causing flooding in some coastal...
Officials in neighboring Pinellas County warned hundreds of homes would likely flood with a higher storm surge than in past destructive storms. “This storm is much larger than Idalia and Eta, and for Idalia, portions of our county had over 4 feet of storm surge and we had over 1,500 ho...
In Pinellas, mandatory orders for Zones B and C will go into effect Tuesday morning, a tweet from the county read. “When we issued that mandatory evacuation, what that means is if you don’t and you call for help, we’re not coming because we’re not going to put our people in ...