U.S. weather forecasters on Friday morning said Hurricane Isaias is now a Category 3 major storm with 120 mph winds, with just hours to go before it makes landfall along the northern Gulf coast.
An update posted at 8:20 a.m. ET by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) shows the storm is about 240 miles south of Pensacola, located on Florida’s Panhandle region, and 170 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River.
The storm is moving 15 mph to the north-northeast, according to the NHC. A forecast map shows that the storm is expected to strike sometime between late Friday night and early Saturday morning, likely along the Florida–Alabama border….