{"id":2016449,"date":"2023-08-30T08:02:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T12:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-idalia-reaches-extremely-dangerous-category-4-strength\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T08:06:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T12:06:12","slug":"hurricane-idalia-reaches-extremely-dangerous-category-4-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-idalia-reaches-extremely-dangerous-category-4-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Idalia now at &#8216;extremely dangerous&#8217; Category 4."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhurricane-idalia-reaches-extremely-dangerous-category-4-strength%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016449&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<h2>Florida\u2064 Braces\u200d for Hurricane Idalia&#8217;s &#8220;Extremely Dangerous&#8221; Category 4 Intensity<\/h2>\n<p>More than 30 counties in Florida have been placed under mandatory \u200devacuation orders after Hurricane Idalia\u2063 strengthened\u2064 into an &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-emergency-declared-in-texas-amidst-severe-winter-weather\/\" title=\"Federal Emergency Declared In Texas Amidst Severe Winter Weather\">extremely dangerous<\/a>&#8221; Category 4 intensity ahead of making\u2062 landfall.<\/p>\n<p>The hurricane, which is headed\u200c towards \u2063Florida&#8217;s \u200bBig \u2063Bend Gulf Coast, was\u200b picking up speeds \u2062of up \u200cto 110 mph (177 kph) by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/live-impeachment-updates-house-reconvenes-to-debate-trump-impeachment\/\" title=\"Live impeachment updates: House reconvenes to debate Trump impeachment\">late afternoon<\/a> on\u200d Aug. 29, placing it at the upper end \u2064of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/florida-braces-for-15-foot-storm-surge-from-hurricane-idalia-5482519\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Category 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the National Hurricane Center said early\u2062 Wednesday that \u200bIdalia \u200chas become an &#8220;extremely dangerous\u200c Category 4 hurricane, and\u200b is nearing landfall in Florida Big Bend region this morning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related \u200dStories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/idalia-on-track-for-florida-daybreak-landfall-5482864\">Idalia on Track\u200c for Florida\u2063 Daybreak Landfall<\/a><br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/29\/2023<\/span>\n      <\/li>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/florida-braces-for-15-foot-storm-surge-from-hurricane-idalia-5482519\">Florida Braces for\u2063 15-Foot Storm Surge From Hurricane Idalia<\/a><br \/>\n        <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">8\/29\/2023<\/span>\n      <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Catastrophic &#038; life-threatening impacts\u200d from Storm\u2064 Surge &#038; Winds expected \u200cas Idalia \u200dmoves ashore,&#8221; the agency \u200csaid \u2062on X, formerly known as \u2064Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>The agency earlier warned that the hurricane would bring &#8220;catastrophic\u200c storm surge inundation,&#8221; &#8220;destructive \u200bwaves,&#8221; and &#8220;life-threatening\u200b winds&#8221; \u200cin some \u2062areas along Florida\u2019s west coast, past the Tampa\u2062 Bay\u2064 area, and\u200d Florida\u2019s Big Bend,\u200d as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-idalia-reaches-category-3-strength-forecast-to-become-extremely-dangerous-category-4\/\" title=\"Hurricane Idalia now a Category 3, expected to intensify to Category 4.\">potential flash-flooding<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Residents should heed advice &#038; evacuation orders by local officials in these areas,&#8221; officials said.<\/p>\n<p>So far, at least 28\u2064 of \u200cFlorida\u2019s 67 counties across \u2064the Big Bend area, particularly those\u200c in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hurricane-idalia-reaches-extremely-dangerous-category-4-strength\/\" title=\"Hurricane Idalia now at 'extremely dangerous' Category 4.\">low-lying\u2064 coastal areas<\/a>, have been placed under <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridadisaster.org\/evacuation-orders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evacuation orders<\/a> and a tornado watch has been issued until 6 a.m. ET for 3.7 million people in\u200c the western peninsula of \u2062Florida. A state of emergency has also\u2062 been issued for 49 of Florida&#8217;s 67 counties.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d National Weather Service \u200boffice in Tallahassee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadsdencountyfl.gov\/news_detail_T34_R371.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> that some\u200c locations &#8220;may be\u200b uninhabitable for several\u200d weeks or months&#8221; following the hurricane, because of large trees being uprooted, debris in the streets, and other wind damage.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>A satellite image \u200cshows Hurricane Idalia moving\u2063 northward over the southeastern Gulf \u200cof Mexico, at 12:40 p.m. ET on Aug. 29, 2023.\u200c (CIRA\/NOAA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>&#8216;Unprecedented Event&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>The National\u200d Weather Service Tallahassee office said\u200d Idalia &#8220;has the makings of an unprecedented event for this part\u200c of the state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To put this system into the historical context, there are NO major hurricanes in the historical dataset going back to 1851 that have tracked into Apalachee Bay. None. Don\u2019t mess around with \u2062this one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Florida \u200bGov. Ron \u2062DeSantis, who is also a candidate for the 2024 \u2064GOP presidential nomination,\u200c has warned \u2064residents under evacuation orders to leave now before Hurricane Idalia hits the ground.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tells\u2063 Florida residents to take safety precautions as Hurricane Idalia is set to sweep \u2063through \u200cpart of the state on Aug. 29, 2023. \u2062(WFSU-TV\/The Florida Channel via AP\/Screenshot via The Epoch Times)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;You still\u200b have a couple hours\u2064 to \u2064pack up and get on the\u2064 road before conditions deteriorate,\u200d but by late\u200b tonight you will need \u200bto hunker down and \u2063stay in place,&#8221; the Republican governor <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovRonDeSantis\/status\/1696666242084376862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> on\u2062 X, formerly,\u200c Twitter, late \u200cTuesday. &#8220;If you\u2062 choose to stay, first responders will not be able to get to you until after\u200b the storm has passed,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200b governor added that shelters will be open across the\u2064 high-risk counties while more \u200dthan 300 members of\u2064 the Florida Highway \u200bPatrol are on standby to escort equipment, resources, and response teams in the\u200b wake of the hurricane.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida National Guard has been fully activated, Mr.\u200c DeSantis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flgov.com\/2023\/08\/29\/governor-ron-desantis-issues-updates-on-hurricane-idalia-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>, with 3,700 guardsmen currently in position across the state for preparedness and response efforts and an additional 1,800 guardsmen on the way ahead of the storm \u2063landing.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, President Joe\u2064 Biden has said he is in &#8220;constant contact&#8221; with Mr. DeSantis ahead of the hurricane touching down, adding that his administration is providing him with &#8220;everything he could possibly need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re worried\u2063 about the\u2062 surge,\u2064 the ocean surge. We\u200d don\u2019t know exactly \u2014 hour to hour, we\u2019re watching this,&#8221; The President \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/4177744-biden-desantis-hurricane-idalia-constant-contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told reporters<\/a> late Tuesday. &#8220;But \u2063I told the governor, and the mayor of \u2064the region \u2063that\u2019s likely\u200c to be hit first, that we\u2019re there as long\u2062 as it \u2062takes, \u200dand we\u2019ll make sure they have everything they need,&#8221; \u2063he added.<\/p>\n<h2>Idalia Now Category 3<\/h2>\n<p>As of the early hours of Wednesday morning, Idalia reached\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCPAT5+shtml\/300256.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Category 3<\/a> strength with winds \u200cof 120 mph (195 kph), according to the National\u2062 Weather\u200d Service, which noted that\u2062 Florida \u200cwasn&#8217;t the only state at risk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A northward to north-northeastward motion \u200bis expected \u2064through morning, with Idalia&#8217;s center forecast to reach the Big Bend coast of Florida this morning,&#8221; NWS said in an \u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/text\/refresh\/MIATCPAT5+shtml\/300256.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">update<\/a> in the \u2062early hours of the morning Wednesday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After landfall, Idalia is\u200b forecast to turn toward the\u2063 northeast and east-northeast, moving near or \u2064along the \u2063coasts of Georgia, South Carolina, and North\u200b Carolina\u2064 late today and Thursday.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Idalia is likely to still be a hurricane while moving across southern Georgia, and possibly when it reaches the coast of\u200c Georgia or \u200bsouthern \u2064South\u200b Carolina late today,&#8221; officials said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 30 Florida counties face mandatory evacuation as Hurricane Idalia strengthens to an &#8220;extremely dangerous&#8221; Category 4. With speeds reaching 110 mph (177 kph), the hurricane is set to hit Florida&#8217;s Big Bend Gulf Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2016450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}