Hurricane Isaias nears the Gulf Coast today as a Category 3, bringing dangerous winds and flooding risks to Mississippi residents.

Isaias is now a hurricane, it’s getting stronger, and it’s headed for the Gulf Coast. The National Hurricane Center said Isaias had 80 mph winds on Thursday morning after becoming a hurricane overnight in the southern Gulf.

Hurricane Isaias is continuing on its path toward making landfall late Friday or overnight into Saturday along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Hurricane Isaias got stronger overnight and is expected to make landfall near Pensacola late Friday or early Saturday. It was a Category 2 storm overnight with 105 mph winds and could reach Category 3 strength.

When AI arrived, it sped up decades of slow improvement in hurricane forecasting. Now scientists wonder what's next.

In forecasting Hurricane Isaias, meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center in Miami have shaped their predictions to closely match an AI hurricane model from Google DeepMind.