Hurricane Hermine Approaches Florida, September 1, 2016. Forecasters expect the storm to make landfall near the Big Bend region of Florida’s Gulf Coast late on Thursday. After that, Hermine will push northeast through southeastern Georgia and eastern South Carolina. Captions and Photo source: NASA / Earth Observatory
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Hermine made landfall at 1:30 a.m. this morning, becoming the first hurricane to hit Florida in 11 years.
In addition to the hurricane-force winds, forecasters said, the storm could bring “life-threatening inundation within the next 12 to 24 hours along the Gulf coast of Florida…”
