We got the latest information coming in from the National Hurricane Center just moments ago.

We got the latest information coming in from the National Hurricane Center just moments ago. We are one mile per hour below a major Category 3 hurricane. The first Atlantic hurricane of the season. It is set to make landfall along the northern Gulf Coast. Here is what has changed since yesterday, and it really is the strengthening within the hurricane itself. Yeah, it's expected to continue to strengthen for the next 12 hours or so, so likely going to make it to Cat 3. Forecasters are saying yes, this is going to be the first major hurricane. Remember, that's Cat 3 or stronger. But before it starts to move into those hostile winds, in the meantime, likely to blow up. We do need to let you know that hurricane warnings have been extended farther north all the way to Montgomery, Alabama. So inland locations bracing for what could be a very intense Friday night. Let's go ahead and take it outside, show you what it looks like in the path of Isaias. Oh man, Biloxi. Taking a look at Biloxi, Mississippi right now, all along the Florida Panhandle. We're watching closely with you, with the speed and acceleration of the storm. Perhaps we have landfall as early as later this evening, late tomorrow morning. Orange Beach, Alabama, preparations have been underway, and at this point, it is hot, it is humid, we've got some rain, and some of the rain is actually starting to make it closer to the coast at this hour. So the winds currently at 110 miles per hour, as Britta just mentioned, we get to 111, we are at Category 3 strength, and again, it is expected to intensify over the next 12 hours before it encounters those stronger winds to the north. It is moving north-northeast at 15 miles per hour, so it is picking up a little bit of pace due to the acceleration to the north as well. And thankfully, we will have a fast-hitting storm. It's going to be impactful, but the longer it sticks around, the more damage it will do. Here is the difference between the 2:00 a.m. and the 5:00 a.m. advisory. So again, the strengthening continues. We've dropped almost 10 millibars in the internal pressure, and that in response is jacking up the winds. Now, looking at the difference here, the fact that we've only gone up by 5 miles per hour, I would anticipate with the next advisory that we're probably going to see that jump to a Cat 3. We do have the wind shear in place to the north of this, but the core has been completely buffered from that. You can see on the cloud deck that it's feeling the force of that wind shear, but the core remains very much intact. There's a look at the forecast. Yeah, latest track does take it to Cat 3 as early as this afternoon, 120 mile per hour winds, encountering the stronger winds but still maintaining perhaps Cat 1 once it gets closer to the coast. I mean, if we're Cat 3 and this close, it's accelerating. We watch closely to see what happens with that. It is also expanding, which you would expect with some of the winds, and as it goes through these warmer waters, it's starting to expand as far as the wind field. Here's a look at what we've got right now. The hurricane warnings extend all the way to interior portions of Alabama, just a corner of Mississippi and the Florida Panhandle. So hurricane conditions expected in the next 12 to 24 hours, and then well up into the north. I mean, we're going to have some strong winds, and that's just the hurricane conditions that we're expecting. We're not even talking about the chance for tornadoes yet, and storm surge as well. The eye is popping out. You can see it right in the center of that circulation over satellite. As we get after sunrise, probably an hour after sunrise, we'll have our visible satellite, which will really give us a good idea of that internal structure. But the rain is approaching the coastline. We already have light rain in Panama City. The heaviest rain is about 100 miles to the south of the shoreline, so conditions will quickly go downhill. By this afternoon, we're in it. So last-minute preps, that's what's about right now. Yeah, and look at those outer rain bands from the center of the storm. There's the eye, and Britta, you can see all of the convection within those outer rain bands and all of that moving up to the north. The winds along the coast right now haven't picked up just yet, but just off the water, they will, and it's just a matter of hours before we start to feel the effects of those winds. Want to show you the cloud deck. You were talking about that, Britta. Look how far it extends. Those are the strong winds that it is about to move into, which is also helping to tug it a little bit faster, which is another reason we're seeing the acceleration, because for the past two days, or yesterday really, it was moving about 8 miles per hour, now it's moving twice that speed, and still over the very open water, deep water that's very warm, 80s plus closer to 90 degrees, helping to fuel the storm. Yeah, because we're starting to see that forward motion pick up pretty dramatically, there's a good chance that we're going to have landfall somewhere later tonight. I think it's trending a little bit quicker than what we were looking at yesterday, and also it's trending stronger. The forecast that was just released with the 5:00 a.m. advisory has the winds bumped up to 120. Yesterday's top ceiling was at 115. So the trend over the last 24 hours has been faster and stronger. I do have questions of how much weakening we will have accomplished before landfall. So this is all turning out to what could be a very strong hit for the northern Gulf Coast. I'll tell you what, if we're Cat 3 and we're that close, and it's moving that fast, you're a very good point. It's going to be hard to have a lot of weakening just because the time that will not be available. Yeah, absolutely. So a lot of you have already prepped though. Look at the threat zone. It's extreme. This is the FOX Weather threat zone. It's extreme right along the immediate coast where we'll be dealing with flooding conditions. But look outside of the cone. Here's the cone. Remember, impacts are going to be well east of the cone. That includes Georgia, the Carolinas, as far as heavy rainfall, chance for tornadoes and strong winds.