[Breaking news update, published at 5:02 a.m. ET]
Idalia has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane with winds of 75 mph and is expected to further intensify into a dangerous Category 3 storm before making landfall on Florida’s Gulf Coast on Wednesday, according to the National Hurricane Center.
I think we need to start calling hurricanes sea leopards and wildfires forest leopards because they’re eating the fuck out of our faces.