Florida and Bermuda alert for hurricanes Idalia and Franklin: when they arrive, live trajectory and last minute

NOAA satellite images already show the strength of Hurricane Idalia and Hurricane Franklin this Tuesday. These are two hurricanes very close to each other that will hit the state of Florida and the west coast of the United States.

As Hurricane Idalia dumps rain and wind over Cuba and the Florida Keys as it moves across the Gulf of Mexico to reach the northwest of this southern state, storm surges and currents from Category 4 Hurricane Franklin batter Bermuda and the Southeast coast of the United States . .

The US National Hurricane Center (NHC) warned Tuesday that Idalia, Category 1 on the Saffir-Simpson scale (out of 5), is strengthening and could be an “extremely dangerous” hurricane with storm surges. since before it made landfall in Florida on Wednesday.

Idalia is now showing maximum sustained winds of 80 mph (130 km/h), even less strong than Franklin’s 130 mph (210 km), the center of which is expected to pass well northwest of Bermuda on Wednesday.

Franklin is about 370 miles (600 km) west-southwest of that British territory and is moving in a north-northeast direction at 9 miles per hour (15 km/h).

Unlike Idalia, Franklin will gradually weaken over the next few days, but is currently still dangerous due to the swell and undertow it produces in Bermuda and on the southeastern coast of the United States. He Hurricane Franklin is a powerful Category 4 hurricane in the currently active Atlantic Ocean, which made landfall in the Dominican Republic as a tropical storm last week.

These sea conditions will extend to the east coast of the US and Canada later today.

Most of Florida’s west coast is under storm surge and hurricane warnings, with additional weather warnings also in effect for Pinar del Río and Isla de la Juventud, in Cuba, and the southern part of the Florida Keys.

The weather forecasts indicate that the center of Idalia will move across the eastern Gulf of Mexico today and make landfall somewhere between Longboat Key and Indian Pass, including Tampa Bay, on Wednesday.

The aircraft will then cross the northern Florida peninsula and approach the US east coast on Thursday.

Heavy rains are expected today not only in western Cuba and the Florida coast on the Gulf of Mexico, but also in southeastern Georgia and the Carolinas.

This rain today can cause flash flooding and mudslides in western Cuba and parts of Florida’s west coast, the Florida Panhandle and southern Georgia, then spread to the eastern Carolinas.

The waves generated by Idalia will impact parts of the southern coast of Cuba and eastern Yucatan (Mexico), and some tornadoes are possible in parts of the west coast of Florida.

Hurricane Idalia, when combined with regular tides, can flood normally dry coastal areas, with sea levels rising up to 12 feet (3.6 m) in the portion of Florida’s Gulf of Mexico coast that runs from the mouth of the sea. the Aucilla River to the town of Chassahowitzka.

Idalia is the third hurricane of the current hurricane season, which lasts until the end of October. (JO)

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