Hurricane

It hit north of Tampa, and storm surge warnings for wider Gulf Coast were discontinued.

It was upgraded to a category one hurricane by the National Hurricane Centre last night before being downgraded in a public advisory at 2am (EDT).

Tropical Storm Elsa picked up some strength as it passed over the Florida Keys Tuesday, raising the possibility it could become a hurricane again before slamming into the mainland.

The tropical storm could bring flash and urban flooding in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia.

Rates are still more than 40% ahead of the pre-Hurricane Irma trough in late 2016.

Elsa was reclassified as a tropical storm from a Category One hurricane on Saturday.

Elsa became the first hurricane of the season early on Friday as it slashed Barbados with winds gusting up to 86 mph.

The state’s insurance commissioner accuses the carrier of breaking state laws for non-renewal of policies in wake of Hurricane Delta claims.

Elsa was churning northwest at about 28 mph, making it a relatively fast-moving storm.

It said the current threat posed by Tropical Storm Elsa was an example of storms being more likely to hit America’s Eastern Seaboard this season.

The RMS V21 model update for North Atlantic hurricane incorporated data from recent major loss years but overall annual average losses have only risen up to 10% across the US.

The storm will begin to weaken later today, before being downgraded from a hurricane to a tropical storm sometime on Tuesday.