- Isaias has intensified into the Atlantic season's first hurricane, advancing towards the US Gulf Coast and prompting warnings of destructive winds, storm surges, and heavy rainfall.
- States of emergency have been declared across Florida and Alabama, while mandatory evacuations and school closures have been triggered in some areas.
- Ahead of the storm, oil and gas producers shut down a significant share of offshore production in the Gulf, with about 25 per cent of the oil production in the region temporarily halted as of Wednesday.
- The National Weather Service told communities from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, to Gulf County, Florida, to prepare for the possibility of “long-duration power outages.”
- Developing more than four months into the season, Isaias nearly ties a 121-year-old record for the latest-forming first Atlantic hurricane.
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