2026 Hurricane Season To Lean Below Average

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Hurricane Helene has made a historic landfall along the Florida Gulf Coast, but still has plenty of flooding rain, damaging winds and threat for tornadoes ahead.

Helene's center moved ashore around 11:10 p.m. EDT Thursday night about 10 miles west-southwest of Perry, Florida, with winds of 140 mph, Category 4 ​intensity, and a pressure of 938 millibars, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Helene is the strongest hurricane on record to landfall in Florida's Big Bend region, stronger than 2023's Idalia, which made a Category 3 landfall with 115 mph winds and a pressure of 950 millibars.

H​elene is also the third hurricane to landfall in Florida's Big Bend region in just under 13 months. Three of the last five hurricanes to landfall in the mainland U.S. have done so in this Big Bend region.

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