Landfall expected by Wednesday on Florida's Gulf Coast.
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.Idalia was nearly a hurricane on Monday morning as it headed for the Gulf of Mexico -- and an eventual landfall in Florida.
Idalia was still a tropical storm on Monday morning but was expected to become a hurricane today. When it does it will be the third hurricane of 2023 in the Atlantic. The hurricane center on Monday was also tracking Hurricane Franklin, which had strengthened to a Category 3 storm and will pass to the west of Bermuda in a few days.As of 4 a.m. CDT Monday, the center of Idalia was located 125 miles south of the western tip of Cuba and was on a path northward at 7 mph.
The storm is forecast to move across northern Florida -- still at hurricane strength -- and then into the western Atlantic and up the coasts of the Carolinas as a tropical storm before turning out to sea later this week.
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