Sept. 26, 2024 | 8:45 a.m.
It’s a nice day in Santa Rosa County, making it hard to believe a hurricane will make landfall to our east.
Hurricane Helene, now a category two storm, is expected to make landfall around 7 p.m. tonight in Florida’s big bend. The impact on Santa Rosa County is minimal, even to the point that little rainfall is forecasted. Here’s the latest updates from a local perspective:
- Rainfall totals shifted overnight. Previously, Santa Rosa County was looking at somewhere between 2 to 4 inches of rain, but now it appears it could be a relatively dry day. There’s a 50% chance of rain today, according to the National Weather Service. The latest rainfall totals from the National Hurricane Center show Santa Rosa County in a dry area.
- A wind advisory remains in place from noon on Thursday until midnight tonight.
- As the storm makes its way through the Gulf, 64 of Florida’s 67 counties remain under a hurricane or tropical storm warning, but Santa Rosa County is not among them.
