A supermoon on Wednesday could exacerbate Idalia's storm surge on the Florida Gulf Coast.
Tropical Storm Idalia is anticipated to make landfall in Florida Wednesday morning, and storm surge could reach up to 15 feet in some areas east of the storm's landfall such as in Cedar Key.
The Tampa Bay region also is anticipated to receive a life-threatening storm surge of 6 to 10 feet. Storm surge is the massive amounts of ocean water that comes ashore during a hurricane. It is more deadly than wind or normal flooding from rainfall. There is a storm surge warning for Englewood northward to the Ochlockonee River, including Tampa Bay, according to the most recent National Hurricane Center advisory.
"Surge is a special threat that sometimes not as many people have seen it," AccuWeather chief meteorologist Jonathan Porter told."We have all seen rain and wind and kind of have a sense of how bad that can be. Surge on average not as many people have seen and how quickly that water level can come up. It tends to catch people who are unprepared off guard."
Porter added that the storm surge includes the water level increase along the coast and into the tidal rivers and inlets, but waves crashing on top of that water level increase can further intensify the damage.
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