TAMPA, Fla. - On Friday, Elsa was upgraded to a Category 1 storm, the first for the Atlantic hurricane season.
While the Florida peninsula is in the cone, there is still a lot of uncertainty in the forecast track.It's currently battering Barbados, explained FOX 13's meteorologist Tony Sadiku.
Officials in St. Vincent and the Grenadines warned people overnight to plan for possible evacuations. The tiny islands were recently hit by massive volcanic eruptions. "I still think we’ve got plenty of days to watch.
It’s still about 2,000 miles away," he said. "It’s not a Fourth of July concern. I think the earliest impacts for South Florida are Tuesday morning and then it depends where this system goes.