Weather of Arabia - Tropical Storm Elsa on Tuesday turned into a first-class hurricane due to its stay over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, as warm waters serve as fuel for tropical situations that enhance their strength and provide them with the necessary energy, but quickly returned to a tropical storm this morning, Wednesday, to hit the coasts West Florida with strong winds and heavy rain.
In the details, Florida is witnessing at the time of preparing the report heavy precipitation exceeding the barrier of 200 mm accompanied by strong winds of approximately 100 km / h, which led to the formation of floods in many areas, and power outages due to the accompanying strong winds, and schools and government offices were closed. No deaths have been reported so far.
And the National Hurricane Center in America, in cooperation with the International NOAA Agency, is making flights through private planes that read the weather data in Storm Elsa and send it to the National Center and the rest of the weather monitoring agencies, and according to the latest reports issued during the past few hours, it is expected that during the coming hours it will continue its way toward Eastern Georgia and then Carolina to gradually lose strength and turn into a tropical depression.
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