Isaias: Gulf Coast faces hurricane threat as Tropical Depression Nine is forecast to strengthen - CNN
Hurricane Isaias has intensified into a Category 1 storm and is tracking toward the northern Gulf Coast. Officials have issued warnings for storm surges and damaging winds, with landfall expected between late Friday and early Saturday.
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Isaias has rapidly intensified into the Atlantic season’s first hurricane, putting the northern Gulf Coast on alert for dangerous storm surge, damaging winds and flooding rain ahead of an expected landfall late Friday or early Saturday. Hurricane hunter aircraft confirmed late Wednesday that Isaias had reached sustained winds of 75 mph, making it a Category 1 hurricane. The storm is about 450 miles south-southwest of the mouth of the Mississippi River and is expected to jog east-northeast for another day before turning sharply toward the northern Gulf Coast, strengthening further. Rapid intensification is when a storm’s sustained winds increase by at least 35 mph in 24 hours or less, a feat more hurricanes are pulling off as Earth and its oceans warm from fossil fuel pollution. Isaias could peak as a Category 2 with 110 mph winds by early Friday.
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