Isaias, hurricane
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The National Hurricane Center projects that the storm will make landfall as a major hurricane along the Florida's Gulf Coast on Thursday.
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More than 600 miles of the Gulf Coast are under storm surge alerts from the National Weather Service as Hurricane Isaias approaches.
As Scientific American previously reported, Isaias is the first hurricane to form in the Atlantic region this season, setting a record for the latest first arrival of any hurricane since satellite monitoring began.