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Hurricane Idalia was a powerful category 4 hurricane that brought destructive weather as it made its way through the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
After starting out as a tropical storm in the western Caribbean Sea, Idalia strengthened to a Category 2 hurricane on Tuesday August 29, 2023 near the western tip of Cuba. By the end of the day on August 29, Idalia was on the cusp of becoming a Category 3 storm.
Idalia brought heavy rains to Cuba, destroying some power lines.
The outer bands of Hurricane Idalia were forecasted to bring severe weather to the western coast of Florida, placing Tampa and surrounding areas under a tornado watch as it approached. Many areas across the state were issued mandatory evacuation orders prior to Idalia’s arrival.
Hurricane Idalia made landfall as a category 3 storm along the coast of Florida’s Big Bend on August 30, 2023. Idalia cost billions in damages and claimed many lives as it travelled through the southeast US and back out to the Atlantic Ocean.
Idalia is considered a historic storm because no major hurricane has ever passed through the Big Bend region of Florida before. Some regions in Florida were still recovering from Hurricane Ian the year prior as Idalia threatened the state.
More detailed information can be found from the National Hurricane Center.
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Description:
Tropical Storm Idalia brought heavy rains, strong winds, and flooding storm surges to the Southeast US as the storm moved offshore. Idalia will continue to bring rain to the area through the day, with parts of North Carolina under a Tropical Storm Warning.
Satellite: GOES-16
Product: GeoProxy
Idalia’s landfall lead to many power outages in communities across portions of the Florida peninsula and parts of southern Georgia.
Satellite: NOAA-21
Product: Day/Night Band
Instrument: VIIRS
Franklin maintains hurricane status while Idalia weakens to a tropical storm over the Southeastern United States.
Product: GeoColor GLM Group Energy Density
Idalia makes its trek up the coast while Franklin churns near the island of Bermuda.
Product: Infrared (band 13)
This multi-day animation shows Idalia’s evolution from a tropical disturbance in the Caribbean Sea to its eventual landfall in Florida.
Hurricane Idalia weakens as it travels over the Southeast US. Life-threatening storm surge, damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and flooding are still occurring with the storm.
Product: GeoColor
This 24 hour time lapse shows Hurricane Idalia’s rapid intensification prior to making landfall in Florida.
An impressive convective burst with abundant lightning within Hurricane Idalia’s eye wall as it makes landfall.
Product: GLM Group Energy Density Visible (band 2)
Hurricane Idalia makes landfall as a category 3 storm along the coast of Florida’s Big Bend.
Lightning can be seen around the active eye of major Hurricane Idalia as it heads towards Florida.
Hurricane Idalia strengthens into a major, category 3 storm on its final approach to Florida.
This full day time lapse shows high resolution imagery of Hurricane Idalia strengthening in the Gulf of Mexico.
Hurricane Idalia approaches Florida as a strengthening, dangerous hurricanee.
A high resolution view of Hurricane Idalia as it heads toward Florida.
Hurricane Idalia is already affecting portions of Florida as it picks up steam over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Product: Infrared (band 13) Visible (band 2)
High resolution imagery of convection within Hurricane Idalia as the sun rises.
Product: Visible (band 2)
Sunrise on a strengthening Hurricane Idalia.
A day in the life of Hurricane Franklin and Tropical Storm Idalia.
Lightning seen with Tropical Storm Idalia as it approaches the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Franklin can also be seen churning in the Atlantic.
Tropical Storm Idalia and Hurricane Franklin can be seen in this wide view of the Western Atlantic.
The extremely warm sea surface temperatures in the Gulf of Mexico will help fuel intensification of Idalia before it makes landfall.
Product: GeoSST
This thirteen hour time lapse shows constant convection firing within Tropical Storm Idalia.
Sunrise on convection within an organizing Tropical Storm Idalia.
An impressive convective burst within Tropical Storm Idalia as the sun sets.
Tropical Storm Idalia forms near the Yucatan Peninsula with sustained winds of 40 mph.
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