Hurricane Isaias could make landfall later Friday evening with “major” storm status east of Pensacola, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a Friday afternoon update.
\n\nDeSantis said that there are still predictions that the storm could weaken before making landfall, but at the time of the press conference, it still stood as a Category 3 major hurricane with maximum sustained winds up to 120 mph.
\n\n“We’ve said from the beginning we are going to assume that it’s going to make landfall as a major hurricane. And while there’s still some people that think it might weaken, it very well may, in fact, make landfall as a major hurricane,” DeSantis said, warning that this is a “major event”
\n\n“But folks who are in the path of this storm know that this is not just going to be a random tropical system. It’s going to be a strong hurricane, and it’s going to potentially do a lot of damage,” he continued, noting that the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has moved the track east of Pensacola. DeSantis said:
\n\nIf you look at the most recent track from the National Hurricane Center, they have shifted the expected landfall east of Escambia County – higher…
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