Hurricane Idalia
🐸 Stay safe, frogs! 🐸
Looks like Idalia just got upgraded to a Category 4 hurricane. Mods, can we have a hurricane thread sticky for those of us in FL and the southeast?
NOAA app only showing 30MPH winds on land in the red zone. Not entirely sure how they think it's a cat 2. I guess they measure the winds 1,000 feet in the air, which seems like fear mongering to me. Luckily the storm is fast moving. It's a typical rain storm for me in Central Florida. Parents are fine in Pinellas County, never lost power. Friends in Cape Coral never lost power. Only family in Tallahassee lost power but nothing serious so far. Just some typical flooding along the coast from high tide, but I don't think very much overall damage at all thank goodness.
Have you see footage out of Perry, FL?
https://twitter.com/iCyclone/status/1696922050454028731?s=20
https://twitter.com/accuweather/status/1696920124496716216?s=20
The gas pumps at this place were ripped out of the ground https://twitter.com/AdamLucioWX/status/1696932192985764052/photo/4
It got down to 840 milibars of pressure before it cooled down, so definitely a category 4 at one point.
This guy is a stormchaser, who by keaton beach where landfall happened and realized they had to get out. Lots of stuff showing the conditions of the highways
https://twitter.com/PeeDee_WxSC/status/1696889239345000793?s=20