Tracking Hurricane 'Idalia'

The oceans have heated up because we had an extensive grand solar minimum that only ended early this year. Lasted for almost 1-1/2 years. All that energy had to go somewhere! I had expected a hot summer, but wow!

Updates for this morning show a tightening of the predicted track, looks like it's going to hit the big bend, with future model deviations trending Eastward. Tampa could be in trouble even if it doesn't shift any further East, and Apalachicola - St. George Island is going to have a bad day too from the look of it. Official forecast now making it a major hurricane at cat 3, but some models predicting it to be cat 4.