Looks like the CME from that X9.0 solar flare might be finally starting to hit. Solar wind just started to pick up in the last hour or so, and we are approaching the tail end of the arrival window NOAA's model had predicted. Keep an eye out for the aurora over the next few hours.
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/real-time-solar-wind
Washington Has been through so much over the past 9 months. It's really a signature win for the new team and Jedd Fisch. I don't blame them for celebrating.
That is true, but Fort Myers is a metro area of only 800k. Tampa has 3.2 million people, and the bay makes it especially vulnerable to storm surge, even moreso than the coast around Fort Myers. Areas further south would obviously be bad, but a direct hit of an H4 or H5 on Tampa Bay could easily be the worst hurricane in American history.