Florida governor Ron DeSantis has been urging the residents to require the warnings seriously because the cyclone is predicted to return ashore sometime between 8am and 9am. “We ask that you simply please take it seriously,” DeSantis said on Tuesday. “This isn't a time to joyride because we do have hazardous conditions out there”.
Elsa briefly became a hurricane on Tuesday evening, causing concern for the state authorities as they were already battling the Florida condo collapse disaster, further complicating the search and operation . consistent with the National Hurricane Center, Elsa’s maximum sustained winds stood at 120kmph early Wednesday when its core was 105km southwest of Tampa.
"Elsa is forecast to form landfall along the north Florida Gulf Coast by late Wednesday morning then move across the south-eastern us through Thursday", the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.
Meanwhile, the National Weather Service’s Tampa Bay office has issued a tornado await parts of Florida until 8am. Hurricane warnings remain in situ whilst the system weakened to a tropical storm on Wednesday. quite 12 million people across three states are under a tropical storm warning.
Forecasters have predicted that Elsa would slice across inland north Florida as a tropical storm with strong rains and wind before moving on to Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia then heading call at the Atlantic by Friday.
