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Victoria Ballard is a senior content editor at the Sun Sentinel. A longtime Florida resident, she supervises the government and education teams. She previously worked at two newspapers in Southern California.

Hurricane Idalia formed early Tuesday, headed for a projected landfall Wednesday on Florida鈥檚 Gulf Coast as a Category 3 hurricane. (National Hurricane Center)

Idalia now a Category 2 hurricane; potentially catastrophic storm surge to flood Gulf Coast as soon as tonight

August 29, 2023 at 4:10 p.m.

Hurricane Idalia is forecast to "rapidly intensify" ahead of a projected landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast Wednesday as a major Category 3 hurricane, according to the National Hurricane Center.

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