While the whipping winds are a serious threat, the National Hurricane Center says that “catastrophic” storm surge of 18 feet could also be deadly between Sarasota and Fort Myers, where Ian is set to make landfall at lunchtime.
While the whipping winds are a serious threat, the National Hurricane Center says that “catastrophic” storm surge of 18 feet—enough to inundate some small homes completely—could also be deadly between Sarasota and Fort Myers, where Ian is set to make landfall at lunchtime.
“That is a tremendous amount of water,” Ross Giarratana, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Tampa Bay office, told The Daily Beast. “Not something you want to ride this out in.”Southwest Florida was initially forecast to avoid the worst of the tropical system for the last week.
Perhaps because of this late shift, most of the shelters in Sarasota and Manatee counties remained empty on Wednesday morning, theThis could be a dangerous combination for the nearly 2 million people who live between Sarasota and Fort Myers. Meteorologists have likened the path and strength of Ian to that of Hurricane Charley, whichBut while Southwest Florida will suffer the brunt of Ian’s force, most of Florida will face dangerous conditions the next 36 hours.
In Tampa Bay, the largest threat is excessive rainfall—with isolated pockets that could see 24 inches fall, while most get at least 18 inches—in a region that regularly floods with significantly less rain. Similar totals are expected in Orlando and Daytona Beach as Ian moves across the state, parallel with Interstate-4.
All of Florida, meanwhile, is at risk of tornadoes spawning in Ian’s outer rainbands, the National Weather Service said. The storm already showed what it was capable of on Tuesday night, when a tornado is suspected of flipping and demolishing small aircraft at
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