[Breaking news update, published at 5:02 a.m. ET]

Idalia has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 75 mph and is expected to further intensify into a dangerous Category 3 storm before making landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.

  • torknorggren@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    The "good " thing is that it continues to track towards more sparsely populated areas. I just hope the folks there actually bother to evacuate.