Helene strengthened into a hurricane on Wednesday and is expected to strengthen further – potentially becoming a major hurricane – before making landfall over Florida on Thursday. Life-threatening storm surge, damaging winds, torrential rain, and flooding are possible.
Helene strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane on Wednesday and is expected to strengthen further – potentially becoming a major Category 3 hurricane – before making landfall over Florida on Thursday. Helene is likely to bring life-threatening storm surge, damaging winds, torrential rain, and flooding to parts of the Sunshine State.Helene is the eighth named storm of the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season.
Hurricane Helene is expected to strengthen further in the Gulf of Mexico, becoming a major hurricane before making landfall over Florida's Big Bend region on Thursday night.The latest track from the NHC is below. After making landfall, Helene is expected to weaken, however, due to the storm's size, speed, and strength, strong, damaging winds are possible for much of the inland southeastern United States.
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