Hurricane Ian is about to hit Florida, the water level is already very high

Hurricane Ian is about to hit Florida, the water level is already very high

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Florida awaits this Wednesday, September 28, 2022 with anxiety the arrival of the hurricane category 4 Ian, who escalates rapidly and could lead to consequences catastrophic according to the American weather services, after having devastated the west of Cuba.

Ian should cause catastrophic sea floods, winds, and flooding in the Florida peninsulaestimates the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in its latest bulletin.

In Naples, Florida, the water level is already higher than that observed during hurricane Irma, notes an oceanographer, relayed by the Kerauros site on Twitter:

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An American meteorologist posted a very impressive video on Twitter. We see the streets of Fort Meyers, a city in Florida completely flooded:

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Carrying sustained winds of up to 250 km / h and gusts again higher, Ian is heading for the west coast of Florida where he is expected in the afternoon local time (i.e. early evening Paris time). The hurricane must then move on land et emerge over the western Atlantic by Thursday evening.

Hurricane Ian blows in the port of Charlotte in Florida, this Wednesday, September 28, 2022. © AFP/RICARDO ARDUENGO

“A very powerful hurricane which will have considerable consequences”

Between 30 and 45 cm of precipitation is expected in central and northeast Florida, and up to 60 cm in some places, according to the NHC.

It’s a major stormFlorida Governor Ron DeSantis said Wednesday morning at a press conference, warning that Ian could make landfall as a Category 5 hurricane, the highest category on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

Clearly, this is a very powerful hurricane that will have far-reaching consequenceshe argued.

Evacuation orders were given overnight for a dozen counties on the coast, and according to Ron DeSantis these were generally followed in these very sensitive areas, but maybe not by everyone.

Warning that the day was going to be very, very difficultthe governor asked people not to go outside during the passage of the eye of the hurricane.

Stay at home, even if it calms down

There is actually a calm when the center of the hurricane is above you. Do you think the storm has passed? This is not the case. She is still very dangerous.

The director of Fema (the federal agency in charge of the management of natural disasters) affirmed that Ian will continue to be a storm very dangerous pour the coming days.

The authorities are preparing for the historic and catastrophic effects that we are already beginning to seeeven though Ian has not yet landed, Deanne Crisswell said at a press conference.

The first images relayed on Twitter are very impressive:

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In Port Charlotte, a city of about 64,000 people on the west coast of Florida, dozens of motorists were still driving through the streets Wednesday morning despite rain and high winds, a reporter from theAFP.

As a result of the beginnings of the storm, the sea has retreated into the estuary near Charlotte Harbor and several small boats are resting on dry land.

On Tuesday, Joe Biden had also warned that Ian could be a very violent hurricane, the impact of which would be devastating and put lives in danger.

The US president has already approved federal emergency aid for 24 of Florida’s 67 counties.

The closer he gets, the higher the anxiety obviously rises with the unknownobserved Chelsea Thompson, 30, who was helping her parents protect their home Tuesday in an evacuation zone southwest of Tampa.

Activity is halted in areas where the hurricane is expected. Tampa airport, for example, suspended its operations late Tuesday afternoon, while Orlando airport did the same on Wednesday. According to the American channel ABC News there were at least 1,903 flight cancellations this Wednesday and nearly 1,600 are already canceled for Thursday.

3,000 National Guard men are mobilized

According to the Pentagon, 3,000 National Guard men are mobilized in Florida, with 1,800 more on the way.

NASA had given up on the takeoff scheduled for Tuesday of its new mega-rocket for the Moon, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Hurricane Ian, then in category 3, had previously struck Cuba on Tuesday, devastating the west of the country five hours before heading for the Gulf of Mexico, according to the Cuban meteorological institute Insmet.

Read also: IN IMAGES, IN PICTURES. Hurricane Ian deprives Cuba of electricity, Florida prepares

Two people were killed in the western province of Pinar del Rio according to Cuban state media and the island was plunged entirely into darkness.

The country of 11.2 million people is without electrical servicetweeted the state electricity company Union Eléctrica, which claims to have deployed of the brigades in the western provinces which were affected to restore every last Cuban without electricity.

The frequency of the most intense hurricanes is increasing

As the surface of the oceans warms, the frequency of the most intense hurricanes, with stronger winds and greater precipitation, increases, but not the total number of hurricanes. Hurricanes are also spreading in areas hitherto spared. According to the IPCC (August 2021 report), the proportion of particularly intense hurricanes (category 4 and 5) should thus increase by 10% compared to the pre-industrial era with a warming of +1.5°C, 13% at +2°C and 30% at +4°C.

In particular, they pose an increasing risk to coastal communities who are victims of wave-submersion phenomena (also called marine submersion) amplified by the rise in the level of the oceans, which cause flooding and salt contamination of land and water. pure water.

Due to rising sea levels and marine flooding phenomena, more than a billion people will live in coastal cities at risk by 2050, according to the IPCC.

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