Forecasters are warning residents in the Florida Panhandle, especially in the Pensacola area, to make final preparactions for Hurricane Isaias, which is expected to make landfall overnight Friday, according to the National Hurricane Center.
Isaias is expected to become a major Category 3 storm over the northern Gulf during the day Friday. Although it will weaken slightly just before landfall, it is still expected to be a strong Category 2 hurricane and bring damaging hurricane force-winds, storm surge, flash flooding, and long-duration power outages in the warning areas. Impacts are expected to reach far from the storm’s center, including well into the Florida Panhandle.
Here’s the latest tracking map, including the spaghetti models, which show the paths generate by various storm forecasting models: