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Idalia

Every dispatch filed on Idalia, in order, so you can watch the call sharpen from first mention to the last word.

5Dispatches
3Days · AUG 28–AUG 30
I-26Tropics
Where the dispatches were filed1 of 5 placed
Map of North America and the Atlantic with a shield at each dispatch's place Natural Earth · places from the headlines
Idalia expected to reach major hurricane status prior to landfall FIGURE 1 AUG 28 · I-26 TROPICS Idalia expected to reach major hurricane status prior to landfall
The route · every exit
  1. Exit 1 · AUG 28 Idalia expected to reach major hurricane status prior to landfall
  2. Exit 2 · AUG 28 · Subscribers Landfall near Category 4 in Florida on Wednesday Florida
  3. Exit 3 · AUG 29 · Subscribers Hurricane Idalia poised to rapidly right up until landfall
  4. Exit 4 · AUG 29 · Subscribers Landfall nudged westward into Jefferson/Taylor county
  5. Exit 5 · AUG 30 · Subscribers Idalia and Franklin pile up the ACE
END Final dispatch AUG 30.

Why I-26?

Tropical stories ride Interstate 26, after the 26 °C sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development.

26 °C

The sea-surface temperature often used as a rough threshold for tropical development; the shield number of this road.

Invest

An area the Hurricane Center is investigating, numbered 90–99 with a basin letter, before it has a name.

ACE

Accumulated Cyclone Energy: a season's wind, squared and summed every six hours. Climatology sets the scale.