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After killing “hundreds” in Florida, Hurricane Ian has been downgraded to a tropical storm — but still poses a life-threatening danger to several states as it is cuts a devastating path over the South East over the next few days.
The monster cyclone made landfall with 150mph winds on Wednesday at Cayo Costa near Fort Myers and Cape Coral in Southwest Florida, making it the fifth-strongest hurricane ever to strike the U.S. before weakening as it passed over the mainland overnight.
Its massive size — seen clearly in NASA photos from space — has made it one of the most destructive hurricanes, with its tropical-storm-force winds extending outward up to 415 miles.
Although the storm slowed to 70mph, The National Hurricane Center reported it had re-emerged on Florida’s east coast at 11am thursday morning, and was gaining strength again.
Central and Northeast Florida were not in the clear and expected to be battered by up to eight inches of rainfall throughout the day, Fox Weather warned.
Ian could potentially regain strength and again become a “category 1 hurricane,” Fox Weather’s Geoff Bansen told The Post, predicting it would “at least become a stronger tropical storm” than it is currently.
