Hurricane Ian is expected to flood some areas of Florida's west coast with storm surges as high as 18 feet above ground level as it makes landfall later today.
Key West's peak surge on Tuesday night was the third highest on record there.along almost all of Florida's west coast, with 8 to 12 feet expected somewhere between Bonita Beach and the small island of Chokoloskee in southern Florida, and 6 to 10 feet from Englewood to Longboat Key.The latest:
As of noon on Wednesday, Hurricane Ian was on the threshold of becoming a Category 5 storm, with winds up to around 155 miles per hour. It is expected to make landfall in southwestern Florida in the next few hours as a catastrophic hurricane, theIt was moving north-northeast at around 9 mph and was located around 50 miles west-northwest of Naples and was moving onshore at Sanibel and Captiva Islands.
NHC is currently expecting between 12 to 18 feet of "catastrophic" storm surge somewhere between Englewood to Bonita Beach, including Charlotte Harbor.The NHC considers storm surge, or an abnormal rise of water generated by a storm, to be the most deadly and destructive aspect of hurricanes. The surge is the result of water being thrust toward the shoreline by the winds moving cyclonically around the storm and can cause "extreme" flooding in coastal areas, especially when it coincides with high tides.
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