Hurricane Idalia aims at Florida
Lazaro Aleman
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At 7 a.m. Tuesday, according to the latest bulletin from the National Hurricane Center (NHC), Suwannee, Hamilton and Lafayette Counties were placed under a hurricane warning and well within the cone of the probable path of Hurricane Idalia, which was projected to intensify rapidly into an extremely dangerous major hurricane before making landfall somewhere in Florida on Wednesday.
Idalia, which formed as a tropical storm off the Yucatan Peninsula on Sunday, was about 135 miles west-southwest of the Dry Tortugas and about 320 miles south-southwest of Tampa, with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph. It was moving north across the Gul
