<p>Storm surge from Hurricane <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-an-escalating-forecast-tropical-storm-idalia-expected-to-hit-florida-as-major-hurricane" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Idalia</a> could get a boost from an imminent supermoon as the tropical system rolls toward <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/florida">Florida</a> this week.</p>
<p>CNN meteorologist Chad Myers <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1696624200209829905">explained</a> what to expect during a segment less than 24 hours before <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-weather-service-warns-hurricane-idalia-poses-unprecedented-danger-to-florida">Idalia is predicted to make landfall</a> somewhere over Florida&#8217;s Big Bend region between Panama City and Tampa on Wednesday.</p>
<p>&#8220;Right now, today and tonight, the moon is 18,000 miles closer than normal because the moon&#8217;s orbit isn&#8217;t a circle. It&#8217;s kind of a big egg,&#8221; Myers told anchor Jake Tapper. &#8220;So because it&#8217;s closer, you get about a 5% higher pull because it&#8217;s 5% closer than normal.&#8221;</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">A rare blue supermoon could intensify Idalia’s storm surge as the hurricane is expected to make landfall on Florida’s west coast Wednesday.</p>
<p>The moon’s close proximity to Earth will strengthen its intensified gravitational pull and is expected to makes tides higher. <a href="https://t.co/DrZZaKE27y">pic.twitter.com/DrZZaKE27y</a></p>
<p>&mdash; The Recount (@therecount) <a href="https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1696624200209829905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 29, 2023</a></p></blockquote>
<p>That stronger gravitational pull &#8220;is going to raise any of these storm surges that would have been — let&#8217;s say 14 feet — would make it 15 feet,&#8221; Myers added, figures which match the high-end of the <a href="https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIATCPAT5+shtml/292354.shtml?">National Hurricane Center&#8217;s forecast</a> for water height above ground in some areas of Florida.</p>
<p>&#8220;You&#8217;re going to see these tides worldwide higher than normal,&#8221; he continued, &#8220;but it affects obviously this storm because as you push water onshore, if the tide&#8217;s going to be higher, you have to add that surge to the tide, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to see tonight.&#8221;</p>
<p>The moon will not just be a supermoon on Wednesday night, but a rare blue supermoon. Blue in this instance is not a reference to the color, but rather an indicator that it is the <a href="https://moon.nasa.gov/news/197/super-blue-moons-your-questions-answered/">second full moon in a single month</a>. There will <a href="https://moon.nasa.gov/news/197/super-blue-moons-your-questions-answered/">not be another blue supermoon</a> until 2037, according to NASA.</p>
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<p>As for right now, Brian Haines, the meteorologist in charge at the National Weather Service office in Charleston, South Carolina, was <a href="https://apnews.com/article/hurricane-idalia-supermoon-tides-c84a50eb054358f424934a6422373b73">quoted by the Associated Press</a> saying, &#8220;I would say the timing is pretty bad for this one.&#8221;</p>
<p>A low tide will take place in the morning on Wednesday in the Big Bend area followed by a high tide during midday, which <a href="https://weather.com/safety/hurricane/news/2023-08-28-tropical-storm-hurricane-idalia-strength-track-surge-size">a post by Weather.com</a> noted could be important depending on when Idalia actually makes landfall.</p>
<p>Idalia, which <a href="https://twitter.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/1696446609121567205" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strengthened into a hurricane</a> early on Tuesday, has already drenched Havana, Cuba, and has been intensifying as it moves over the warm waters of the Gulf Coast toward Florida. It reached Category 2 strength in the afternoon and is expected to intensify into a major Category 3 storm by Wednesday.</p>
<p>Heavy rain, flooding, strong winds, and even tornados could affect Florida, as well as neighboring states in the coming days. And there will be storm surge, which prompted Florida Governor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/ron-desantis">Ron DeSantis</a> to warn residents to seek refuge if they are in and around the Big Bend area — <a href="https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2023/08/29/cedar-key-florida-where-hurricane-idalia-path-track-gulf-mexico/70707213007/">mentioning Cedar Key in particular</a> — where myriad evacuation orders have been given.</p>
<p>&#8220;Storm surge is something — you&#8217;re not going to win that battle if you decide to stay behind for that,&#8221; DeSantis <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkuK-qusn0A">said</a> during a briefing. &#8220;You run away from the water and then you hide from the wind.&#8221;</p>
<p>The outer bands of the storm are already sweeping through parts of Florida. In fact, the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/video/watch-streets-flood-in-fort-myers-beach-as-hurricane-idalia-nears-florida/0D006961-D44C-49F8-97B6-E633C40EE1A6.html">streets of Fort Myers</a> were already flooding on Tuesday.</p>

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