Hurricane Isaias is expected to make landfall late tonight or early Saturday morning anywhere from Baldwin County, Alabama, to near Destin, Fla. The National Hurricane Center said as of Friday morning that Isaias was a Category 3 hurricane with sustained winds of 120 mph.

Isaias crashed into the U.S. Gulf Coast on Friday as a dangerous Category 2 hurricane, hammering communities in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle with damaging winds, heavy

As residents on the northern Gulf Coast brace for quickly strengthening Hurricane Isaias (a Category 3 storm as of Friday afternoon), many are likely eyeing their roofs and walls with nervous anticipation.

A supersized El Niño’s decapitating winds and the Gulf of Mexico’s hot storm-fueling waters are battling for the core and future of land-approaching Hurricane Isaias and the storm’s tilt and eye show who’s winning.

Hurricane Isaias surged into Category 3 on Friday, a remarkable increase in strength for a storm that only became a hurricane on Wednesday night. The phenomenon of a storm growing

Isaias officially became a tropical storm as of 5 a.m. on Wednesday. Isaias is likely to develop into a hurricane soon. The official track from the Hurricane Center brings the storm into the northern Gulf as a category two hurricane by Friday morning with winds up to 110 mph.

Hurricane Isaias remains a powerful Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 115 mph. The storm is expected to weaken before making landfall near

However, wind advisories remain across much of the region for sustained winds.