Weather
Idalia Makes Landfall
Hurricane Idalia rapidly intensified into a major Category 4 storm before dropping back to Category 3 early Wednesday before it made landfall along the coast of Florida’s Big Bend near Keaton Beach, along the Apalachee Bay, at about 7:45 a.m. Idalia is expected to bring “catastrophic storm surge,” according to the National Hurricane Center. A NOAA National Ocean Service tide gauge at Cedar Key, Florida, on the “dirty” side of the storm where impacts tend to be more severe, reported a pre-landfall water level of 5.9 feet above mean higher high water, which approximates inundation in that area, according to the National Hurricane Center.









