{"id":107170,"date":"2024-09-26T07:30:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-26T00:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107170"},"modified":"2024-09-26T07:30:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-26T00:30:59","slug":"hurricane-helene-on-path-for-florida-with-significant-strengthening-expected-before-landfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=107170","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Helene on path for Florida with significant strengthening expected before landfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/storm-hurricane-helene-florida-gulf-coast\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurricane Helene<\/a><\/span>\u00a0continued to gain strength Wednesday as it entered the Gulf of Mexico\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tropical-storm-helene-hurricane-path-maps-track-forecast\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">on a path<\/a><\/span>\u00a0toward the Big Bend area of Florida&#8217;s Gulf Coast. The hurricane was expected to become more powerful as it moves through the Gulf&#8217;s warm waters.<\/p>\n<p>The storm had maximum sustained winds of 85 mph late Wednesday afternoon, making it a Category 1 storm, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. The hurricane center uses <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hurricane-categories-what-the-ratings-scale-means\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">five categories<\/a><\/span> for hurricanes and considers storms that are at least a Category 3, with sustained winds over 110 mph, to be a major hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We think that significant strengthening is going to occur here over the eastern Gulf of Mexico,&#8221; Jamie Rhome, a deputy director at the hurricane center, told CBS News on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"newsletter_signup \">\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-newsletter-widget embed--float-none embed--size-large embed--type-iframe\" data-ads=\"{\" wordcount=\"\">\n<\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Forecasters warned Helene could grow to Category 4 strength Thursday with winds of 130 mph and that additional strengthening was possible before the hurricane makes landfall.<\/p>\n<p>In a Category 3 storm, well-built framed homes in the hardest-hit coastline communities may incur major damage or removal of roof decking, the hurricane center said. Many trees will be snapped or uprooted, blocking roadways. Electricity and water will likely be unavailable for several days to even weeks after the storm passes.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Ron DeSantis told reporters Wednesday that thousands of lineworkers were coming to the state to restore power after the storm passes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is anticipated that there is going to be power outages, so folks have an opportunity to plan for that now,&#8221; DeSantis said. &#8220;You still have time to <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hurricane-season-warnings-how-to-prepare\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">make the preparations<\/a><\/span> and put your plan in place today, but that time is running out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The storm was expected to bring &#8220;life-threatening storm surge, damaging winds and flooding rains to a large portion of Florida and the southeastern United States,&#8221; the National Hurricane Center said.<\/p>\n<p>In Florida&#8217;s Big Bend area south of Tallahassee, from Carrabelle to the Suwannee River, forecasters expected the water to reach 15-20 feet above ground if the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/2023-atlantic-hurricane-season-storm-surge-surfing-dangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">storm surge<\/a><\/span>&#8216;s peak occurred at the same time as high tide. Other areas could see anywhere from 3-15 feet of water, the hurricane center warned.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The water impacts are probably going to be the most impactful part of the storm, the most deadly part of the storm,&#8221; Rhome said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"Hurricane Helene moves into the Gulf of Mexico in a satellite image captured at 4:20 p.m. ET, Sept. 25, 2024. \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/09\/25\/f5695d43-c1d5-4024-b90c-8f30ee4dd280\/thumbnail\/620x465\/73a81e863883b6c887d445b28d4b919e\/hurricane-helene-20240925-1640.jpg?v=05e1d8b62a2ebbf0c759b67223fa87f8 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/09\/25\/f5695d43-c1d5-4024-b90c-8f30ee4dd280\/thumbnail\/1240x930\/b99ba2c3863c7c21a8adbe3cfe19ce5d\/hurricane-helene-20240925-1640.jpg?v=05e1d8b62a2ebbf0c759b67223fa87f8 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">Hurricane Helene moves into the Gulf of Mexico in a satellite image captured at 4:20 p.m. ET, Sept. 25, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                NOAA\/NESDIS\/STAR GOES-East<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Watches and warnings were issued throughout Florida ahead of the storm. President Biden and DeSantis declared emergencies in the state earlier in the week, and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/tropical-storm-helene-florida-evacuations\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">evacuation orders<\/a><\/span> were issued in several counties. At the University of Tampa, officials were trying to evacuate all residential students by Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Helene is expected to make landfall on Thursday, and it won&#8217;t just affect Florida, Rhome said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m really concerned that southern Georgia is going to have a big impact well beyond where the center makes landfall,&#8221; Rhome told CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis discouraged Floridians from traveling hundreds of miles from their homes to flee the storm because Helene was expected to move inland after making landfall.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you look at how this storm&#8217;s going to go, it&#8217;s going to hit the northern part of Florida, and it is going to keep moving, and it&#8217;s going to get into southern Georgia, it&#8217;s going to get into probably Atlanta, it&#8217;s going to get into Tennessee-Carolina region and just kind of stall out a little bit, so Florida, we&#8217;re just kind of the opening act,&#8221; DeSantis said.<\/p>\n<p>The governor instead urged people to move to higher ground in their own area by going to a friend or family member&#8217;s home or to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridadisaster.org\/shelters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shelter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>Florida preparing for Hurricane Helene<\/h2>\n<p>Along Florida&#8217;s west coast, residents were <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/how-to-prepare-for-2024-hurricane-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">preparing for the storm<\/a><\/span> by boarding up windows, fueling up their vehicles and filling up sandbags before Helene&#8217;s potentially dangerous hit.<\/p>\n<p>In Tallahassee, Dorothy Richardson was getting ready to hunker down with six of her grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Either which way it go, I need to prepare,&#8221; Richardson said. &#8220;Getting my sandbags \u2026 got my coal, got my lighter fluid, got my propane tank.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"><img alt=\"People fill up sandbags at Joe DiMaggio Sports Complex before Helene's expected landfall on Florida's Big Bend, in Clearwater, Florida, Sept. 25, 2024. \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/09\/25\/692c8a26-2557-40d5-bc1c-81ddbb2fe5b3\/thumbnail\/620x413\/3010304673412328f8c26da983725642\/2024-09-25t135829z-232909839-rc2p7aa8er42-rtrmadp-3-storm-helene.jpg?v=05e1d8b62a2ebbf0c759b67223fa87f8 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/09\/25\/692c8a26-2557-40d5-bc1c-81ddbb2fe5b3\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/e5683f2615dad1ebc5a5cb8aed60a2f9\/2024-09-25t135829z-232909839-rc2p7aa8er42-rtrmadp-3-storm-helene.jpg?v=05e1d8b62a2ebbf0c759b67223fa87f8 2x\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\">People fill up sandbags at Joe DiMaggio Sports Complex before   Helene&#8217;s expected landfall on Florida&#8217;s Big Bend, in Clearwater, Florida, Sept. 25, 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Reuters\/Marco Bello<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Russell King was preparing to evacuate his Mexico Beach home. He said the house barely withstood <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hurricane-michael-is-the-most-powerful-storm-to-hit-florida-panhandle-on-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurricane Michael<\/a><\/span> in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We lost our shower, we lost our elevator, we lost all of our ground floor walls,&#8221; King said. &#8220;We think we&#8217;re OK with these now, but, you know, we don&#8217;t know \u2014 125 miles an hour, they get blown out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tallahassee Mayor John Dailey said the city is doubling its workforce with crews from other states coming in to help restore power and deliver aid to the area after Helene hits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very concerning,&#8221; Dailey said. &#8220;I&#8217;m from Tallahassee, this is my hometown. We have never seen a storm of this magnitude that could possibly be a direct hit to Tallahassee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Farther south, in Tampa, a makeshift wall was installed outside Tampa General Hospital to keep out water from the nearby bay. The area was expected to see 5-8 feet of storm surge. Officials said the wall held back about 2 1\/2 feet of water last year when <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/hurricane-idalia-landfall-category-wind-speeds-florida-impact-path-meteorologists\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Hurricane Idalia<\/a><\/span> hit.<\/p>\n<h2>Warm water in Gulf fuels hurricane<\/h2>\n<p>Record-warm water in the Gulf would act like jet fuel in intensifying the storm. Brian McNoldy, senior research associate at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, recently noted that\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/explosive-hurricane-season-ocean-temperatures-la-nina-weather-channel-meteorologist\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">ocean heat content<\/a><\/span>\u00a0in the Gulf of Mexico is the highest on record.\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/ocean-temperatures-higher-models-predicted-climate-experts-warn\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Warm water<\/a><\/span>\u00a0is a necessary ingredient to strengthen tropical systems.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-twitter-tweet embed--float-none embed--size-medium lazyload\" data-require=\"third-party\/twitter-widgets\">\n<div class=\"embed__content-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is pretty amazing: the ocean heat content averaged over the Gulf of Mexico is obliterating previous all-time record highs. It&#8217;s 126% of average for the date.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CdrzWVvKiZ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/t.co\/CdrzWVvKiZ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rciwFvJ8Zx\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pic.twitter.com\/rciwFvJ8Zx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brian McNoldy (@BMcNoldy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BMcNoldy\/status\/1831330796621447345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">September 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Sea surface temperatures in the path of Helene are as warm as 89 degrees Fahrenheit \u2014 2 to 4 degrees F above normal. These record water temperatures have been made\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.climatecentral.org\/climate-shift-index-ocean\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">significantly more likely by human-caused climate change<\/a>, according to Climate Central. The North Atlantic Ocean as a whole has seen record warm temperatures in 2024, storing 90% of the excess heat from\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/climate-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change<\/a><\/span>\u00a0produced by\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/climate-change-how-carbon-dioxide-emissions-warm-earth\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">greenhouse gas pollution<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<h2>Florida radar map<\/h2>\n<p>Ahead of Helene&#8217;s expected arrival in Florida, this radar map shows rainfall across the state.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-original\"><span class=\"img embed__content\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/radar.cbslocal.com\/wfor\/radar_anime\/WEB_RADAR_FL_3hour.gif\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radar.cbslocal.com\/wfor\/radar_anime\/WEB_RADAR_FL_3hour.gif\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\"><span class=\"embed__caption\"\/> <span class=\"embed__credit\">CBS Miami<\/span> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n      <em><\/p>\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/manuel-bojorquez\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Manuel Bojorquez<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.<br \/>\n      <\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p><!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/alex-sundby\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Alex Sundby<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Alex Sundby is a senior editor at CBSNews.com. 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