Tornado Watch till 8PM CDT for Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Geneva, Houston, Holmes, Washington (FL), Bay, Jackson, Calhoun (FL), and Gulf counties… https://t.co/URT7bEKGTp

— Spinks Megginson (@rzweather) October 09, 2026

RT @PettusWX: 🚨 NWS Mobile and Tallahassee now have an EXTREME wind threat for the western Florida Panhandle from #Isaias.

Winds over 110…

— Spinks Megginson (@rzweather) October 09, 2026

RT @TylerSmith_wx: People are havin fun here in Navarre! https://t.co/XMR4StCd0w

— Spinks Megginson (@rzweather) October 09, 2026

Just wrapped a live video update (below)… Hurricane Isaias continues to rapidly move toward northwest Florida and south Alabama.

Landfall point will very likely be in Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, or Walton counties this evening. https://t.co/tGedEDquBO

— Spinks Megginson (@rzweather) October 09, 2026

A Tornado Watch will be issued soon for parts of south and southeast Alabama, northwest Florida, the Florida Panhandle region, and southwest Georgia.

Tornadoes possible this afternoon into this evening as the core of Hurricane Isaias approaches from the south. https://t.co/lW2yyY6uwa

— Spinks Megginson (@rzweather) October 09, 2026

Whether we like it or not, we are witnessing a seismic shift in the world of hurricane forecasting.

The AI-based models (Google DeepMind, as one example) are winning the battle, to put it mildly, against the more traditional numeric weather models. Not to say the GFS and ECMWF

— Spinks Megginson (@rzweather) October 09, 2026