Explainer: How climate change is fueling hurricanes indiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
East coast are bracing for impact as tropical storm elsa closes in on florida s gulf coast. the storm briefly strengthened to a hurricane tuesday before losing power as it approached the coast. el elsa is expected to make landfall in florida s big bend area. here is a look at conditions near tampa where they are still feeling the impact of the outer bands. forecasters are especially concerned about the threat of deadly storm surge and as well as heavy rain, wind and possible tornadoes. tyler mauldin has been tracking this storm and joins us now. talk to us about what you are seeing. it is a 70-mile-per-hour storm now. and even though it hasn t made landfall, it just paralleled the coast of florida, we ve seen some big impacts especially along the west coast in the form of heavy rain, we ve seen some tornado warnings be issued as
Back to you in the studio. certainly something folks on the east coast want to keep an eye on the southern states. derek, thank you so much for that. all right. joining me now from miami, ken graham, director of the national hurricane center. ken, you ve been watching elsa. give us a sense of where and when exactly you think it will make landfall. yeah, john. the next two to three hours we ll make landfall here. here is the center on the radar approaching the florida coastline with time. it s not just that center, john. look at the rainfall stretching well out from the center, that tail end. we look at some of the dangsers of the rainfall, some of the storm surge and really 90% of your tornadoes in these tropical systems occur on the right front side. so tornadoes, heavy rainfall, and some of these big bands from elsa starting to get portions of north florida and into georgia over the next couple hours. it won t just be a florida event up the east coast. ken graham, always a pleasure to speak to you. thank you so much. we have breaking news, major breaking news. the president of haiti has been
Most prestigious competitions. at this hour, million of people in florida and along the southeast are bracing for impact as tropical storm elsa closes right now on florida s gulf coast. also briefly strengthened to a hurricane late tuesday. it has since lost a little bit of its punch. still, 33 counties are under a state of emergency at this hour. the storm is expected to make landfall late wednesday morning. before that though, elsa battered the florida keys with wind and heavy rain. this was the scene in key west on tuesday as the storm skirted west of the lower keys. for more on what we can expect from the storm, we bring in tyler malden.
Cherished belongings will never be seen again. leyla santiago, cnn, surfside, florida. cnn is projecting that brooklyn burrow president eric adams will win the democratic primary for new york city mayor. if he defeats his republican challenger this november, adams would become the second black mayor in the city s history and the first since the late david dinkins lost re-election in 1993. adams tweeted this, i true up poor in brooklyn and queens, i wore a pbulletproof vest to kee my neighbors safe, i served my community as senator and brooklyn borough president, and i m honored to be the mayor of the city i ve always called home. thank you, new york. new york s rising crime wave was a major issue in the mayoral