A quiet start to the Atlantic hurricane season has been all but forgotten as a powerful storm barrels toward Florida this week with the potential to hit as aCurrent forecasting models predict Hurricane Ian will head directly toward Florida’s west coast, making landfall somewhere between Fort Myers and Tampa Bay late Wednesday into early Thursday.
On Tuesday, the storm ripped through Cuba as a Category 3 hurricane and was expected to intensify. Officials have ordered around 2.5 million people to evacuate., hurricane-force winds and heavy rainfall are expected across various areas of Florida. “Residents should rush all preparations to completion today,” officials said.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday said an estimated 2.5 million people were under evacuation orders.