Our live coverage of Tropical Storm Isaias has ended for the day.
There are 2,160 power outages affecting 27,400 customers in Florida today as Tropical Storm Isaias continues to move closer to the state’s coast, according to the Florida Power & Light (FPL) outage map.
Palm Beach County currently has the most power outages in the state with 720 reported and 9,910 customers affected, the FPL outage map showed.
Broward County has 570 outages affecting 7,430 FPL customers. In Miami-Dade, there are 290 outages with 4,490 customers affected as of noon, the map showed.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is calling on local governments to get ready for the possibility of Tropical Storm Isaias hitting the area Monday night into Tuesday morning, he said during a press call Sunday.
Although he says it isn’t expected to be a hurricane when it hits New York, Isaias can still drop 3 inches of rain and bring 50 mph winds.
The storm should be over by Wednesday morning and it is expected to hit Long island and the Hudson area, he said.
The state is preparing generators and vehicles that can withstand heavy water.
Tropical storm warnings have been extended northward to Surf City, North Carolina, according to the 11 a.m. advisory from the National Hurricane Center.
A tropical storm watch was also issued for the North Carolina coast, north of Surf City to Duck, North Carolina – this includes the entire Outer Banks.
The tropical storm warning has been discontinued south of Jupiter Inlet in Florida, which means West Palm Beach is no longer under a watch or warning for tropical storm conditions.
Tropical storm-force-winds are spreading over the Florida coast from Jupiter Inlet to Vero Beach, and those will continue to spread northward along the coast as the day moves on.
Some context: Tropical Storm Isaias continues to be a strong system with sustained winds of 65 mph and is expected to maintain this intensity as it moves up the Florida coast over the next 24 hours.
Based on forecasts for Tropical Storm Isaias, facilities at Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina will be closed starting today, according to a statement released by the National Park.
The Cape, which preserves the portion of the Outer Banks of North Carolina from Bodie Island to Ocracoke Island, is home to the nation’s tallest brick beacon.
Tropical Storm Isaias is located around 40 miles southeast of West Palm Beach, Florida and is moving northwest at 8 mph as of 8 a.m. ET.
The storm will move up the east coast of Florida throughout the day, bringing strong winds, storm surge and heavy rainfall to the east coast of the state.
The center of the storm is forecast to hug the coast, and the official National Hurricane Center track has the center within 5-10 miles for much of the afternoon and evening as it moves northward past Port St. Lucie, Melbourne, Titusville and eventually Daytona Beach by early Monday morning.
Here are some more projections from CNN’s weather team:
Freeport, Bahamas
Tropical storm winds window: happening now - noon
Storm peak time: 9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Sunday
Peak wind gusts expected: 50+ mph
Expected rainfall totals: 1 - 2 inches
West Palm Beach, Florida
Tropical storm winds window: now - 2 p.m. Sunday
Storm peak time: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. Sunday
Peak wind gusts expected: 70 - 75mph
Expected rainfall totals: 1 - 2 inches
Melbourne, Florida
Tropical storm winds window: 1 p.m. - 2 a.m. Monday
Storm peak time: 4 p.m. Sunday - 10 p.m. Sunday
Peak wind gusts expected: 65 - 70mph
Expected rainfall totals: 2 - 3 inches
Daytona Beach, Florida
Tropical storm winds window: Midnight - 8 a.m. Monday
Storm peak time: 2 a.m. - 6 a.m. Monday
Peak wind gusts expected: 60 - 65mph
Expected rainfall totals: 2 - 3 inches
Charleston, South Carolina
Tropical storm winds window: 4 p.m. Monday - 12 a.m. Tuesday
Storm peak time: 8 p.m. - 11 p.m. Monday
Peak wind gusts expected: 65 - 70mph
Expected rainfall totals: 4 - 5 inches
Wilmington, North Carolina
Tropical storm winds window: 12 a.m. - 7 a.m. Tuesday
Storm peak time: 2 a.m. - 6 a.m. Tuesday
Peak wind gusts expected: 55 - 60mph
Expected rainfall totals: 3 - 4 inches
Isaias’ center is expected to move within miles of Florida’s east coast today. While it’s not clear if the storm will make landfall in the US, the possibility can’t be ruled out, CNN meteorologist Allison Chinchar said.
So what happens after that? The storm’s center could affect the Carolinas’ coast by early Tuesday — and current forecasts show a landfall over the coastal Carolinas is possible.
The storm then could move along the coasts of the mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states from Tuesday into Wednesday.
The governors of Florida, North Carolina and Virginia have declared states of emergency, allowing officials to move resources and equipment for recovery.
Isaias is continuing toward Florida, and the storm comes at a sensitive time during the coronavirus pandemic. On Friday, Florida marked the fourth consecutive day it reported a record number of Covid-19 deaths in the state at 257.
Florida closed some state-supported Covid-19 drive-through and walk-up testing sites on Thursday in anticipation of the storm.
Testing is shut down in Miami and will likely stay that way until Tuesday or Wednesday, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez told CNN Friday.
“That’s going to be a gap in information for four or five days,” Suarez said.
Here’s what else Florida is doing to prep for a hurricane in the middle of a pandemic:
