Miles per hour making it a dangerous category 4 hurricane. Its located southsoutheast of naples. It passed over cudjoe key around 9 00 a. M. And it impacted a large area of the keys and middle keys and upper keys. It continues it upward approach to the naples area as well as captiva and the upper coast. Many reports of hurricaneforce gusts in brevard and lee county at this time. This will be updated at 11 00. But its essentially unchanged from the previous forecast. We are expecting the system to move up the west coast of florida with significant impact. We have hurricane warnings for essentially all of florida except the western panhandle. The timing. South florida will continue to be under the gun for the rest of today and tonight, and well see the impact spreading into the tampa area tonight and continuing up the coast into the georgia and South Carolina area. The storm surge, we are expecting values of 1015 feet from the captiva area down to cape sable. At this point these conditio
Below-freezing temperatures. Layers of slick, rock-hard ice at usual put-in places and along the shorelines of lakes and rivers.
There are lots of reasons why most people don’t go kayaking in the dept.
more storm surge in from the bay. power is out for half the county. 3 million so far is the latest estimate. and it s likely to rise as the storm system swaddles the entire state. the west coast really getting pummeled in the next couple of hours. the east coast, the residents yesterday when they saw the track of the storm shift over towards the west coast, they thought wow we are going to get some wind or rain. this has been going on for 15 hours and there is still 12-15 hours to go. this is miserable weather. the curfew has been in effect all night long. it s in effect now. there is no desire to get outside. the pelican marina is starting to puddle up.