Florence vaults to Category 4 status, Gordon weakening inland, 92L expected to develop
Somewhat unexpectedly, Hurricane Florence rapidly intensified into the first major hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season Wednesday morning, and has since strengthened into a Category 4 hurricane. Last night, Tropical Storm Gordon made landfall near the Alabama-Mississippi border as a strong tropical storm with maximum sustained winds of 70 mph, and has rapidly weakened to a tropical depression today. There is also Invest 92L to watch in the eastern Atlantic, which is likely to become a tropical depression by…