Climate
Hurricane Isaias makes landfall in Florida as first Atlantic hurricane of the 2026 season
October 10, 2026 at 02:28 AM · Updated 6d ago
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3 reports · 1 in Arabic, 2 in English · over 6 hours
Hurricane Isaias made landfall in Florida as a category 2 storm, forcing evacuations across the Gulf Coast with life-threatening flooding expected.
- Isaias made landfall near Destin, Florida, on Friday evening, one of the two latest-forming Atlantic hurricanes on record.
- Florida, Alabama, and Georgia declared states of emergency, with mandatory evacuations ordered in some coastal communities.
- More than 400,000 customers lost power across Alabama and Florida by Friday evening, according to poweroutage.com.
- President Trump said he would skip the college football game in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and attend a rally in Tennessee instead.
- Isaias struck with maximum sustained winds of 105 mph upon landfall.
- Power outages rose to more than 664,000 customers across Florida and Alabama.
- Florida Governor Ron DeSantis urged residents to stay off roads due to flooding.


