Watch live radar in the media player below as the Category 2 storm moves into Georgia and the Carolinas.
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 1:17PM
MIAMI — Hurricane Idalia has roared ashore in Florida, making landfall in the Big Bend region just before 8 a.m. Wednesday as a powerful Category 3 hurricane. It has since been downgraded to a Category 2 storm.
Wind gusts have reached 85 mph.
Hurricane Idalia makes landfall on Aug. 30, 2023.
Hurricane Idalia path on Aug. 30, 2023.
Life-threatening storm surge is a major threat.
Storm surge is already flooding most of the coastal Tampa Bay area, where the surge could reach 6 feet.
The storm surge could hit 16 feet near Cedar Key and the Big Bend area and could reach 5 feet in the flood-vulnerable cities of Savannah, Georgia, and Charleston, South Carolina.
Hurricane Idalia storm surge on Aug. 30, 2023.
Heavy rain — up to 1 foot — as well as flash flooding are expected from Georgia to the Carolinas.
Hurricane Idalia rainfall through Thursday.
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