Hurricane Idalia roared toward Florida’s Gulf Coast on Tuesday, threatening storm surges and devastating winds that spurred evacuation orders ahead of its expected landfall as a major Category 3 ‘cane.
Hurricane Idalia roared toward Florida’s Gulf Coast on Tuesday, threatening storm surges and devastating winds that spurred evacuation orders ahead of its expected landfall as a major Category 3 ‘cane.
The rapidly intensifying storm is projected to have sustained winds of up to 120 mph as it approaches the state.
“Idalia probably has another 24 to 30 hours left over water, and it will continue to move north toward the Big Bend of Florida,” where the state’s panhandle shifts into its peninsula region, Fox Meteorologist Cody Braud told The Post.
The wicked storm — expected to make landfall between 6 a.m. and noon Wednesday — has left about 14 million Floridians under hurricane and tropical storm warnings.
As Floridians braced for the weather wallop — loading up on sandbags and evacuating homes along the Gulf Coast — Idalia dumped heavy rain over Cuba, particularly in the westernmost portion of the island.
Cubans rushed to evacuate coastal towns in that region Monday as brown floodwaters as tall as people’s knees inundated homes and rain pummeled the tobacco-rich province of Pinar del Rio.
