Idalia Moves Over South Carolina

NOAA Satellite imagery of Storm Idalia moving northeast across the U.S. in the late hours of Aug. 30, 2023. Screenshot via The Epoch Times/CIRA/RAMMB

Snapshot

Idalia is now a tropical storm and is moving through South Carolina with heavy train and sustained winds of 65 mph.

It made landfall early on Aug. 30, just before 8 a.m. ET, on Florida’s west coast in the Big Bend region, as a dangerous Category 3 hurricane with high winds and storm surge. It briefly became a Category 4 hurricane prior to making landfall.