Katrina Set to Rain on Florida
Tropical Storm Katrina continues to gain strength as it approaches the Fort Lauderdale/Palm Beach Florida coast. This morning’s wind speeds were near 60 MPH, and landfall is expected sometime late tonight, or early Friday morning.
The picture, courtesy of NOAA, shows Katrina at about 8 AM eastern time, centered over the Bahamas.
While Katrina’s expected path once it exits the west coast of Florida early Saturday morning has changed to a more northerly and easterly direction, forecasters are still unsure exactly where she’ll end up. One model puts the storm track along northeast Florida, while another positions the second landfall close to the Alabama border.
Based on the current projected track, however, the storm is likely to have less of an effect on the Atlanta metro area than either of the two storms that approached the area back in July. The most intense wind and rain from a hurricane occurs to the east of the storm’s center. Given that Katrina’s center looks like it will pass to our southeast, we may avoid the worst of the storm, while southeast Georgia bears the worst of it on Monday.
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