Major Storm Threatens Florida and Eastern U.S. This Weekend

A potent storm system is forecast to track northward from the Gulf of Mexico into Florida before moving up the southeastern coast this weekend. The storm has the potential to unleash heavy rainfall, gusty winds, coastal flooding, dangerous surf and even isolated tornadoes from Florida to New England over the next several days.

There remains some uncertainty regarding the eventual track and intensity of the system, but impacts could be widespread and significant regardless of the precise details.

As the threat becomes clearer, residents across the Eastern Seaboard should closely monitor forecasts over the next 48 hours.

As of Friday morning, computer model guidance suggests two plausible scenarios for the evolution of the developing storm.

The first would take the organized area of low pressure inland across the Florida Peninsula before hugging the Southeast coast and then tracking northward offshore.