The Gulf Coast is bracing for a major hurricane landfall late this week as Tropical Storm Helene is forecast to rapidly intensify into a Category 3 storm and strike the Florida coast.
The Gulf Coast is bracing for a major hurricane landfall late this week as Tropical Storm Helene is forecast to rapidly intensify into a Category 3 storm and strike the Florida coast. The National Hurricane Center designated Helene a tropical storm at 11 a.m. EDT Tuesday as the system has now formed a well-defined center of circulation and continues to organize.
In addition to record-warm waters fueled by climate change, Helene is expected to travel directly over the Loop Current, an area of exceptionally warm water that travels up from the Caribbean into the eastern Gulf of Mexico before squeezing through the Florida Straits and traveling northward as the Gulf Stream.
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