Isaias's 'dirty side' and a Tampa Bay flood advisory, in Jim Weber's FOX 13 update

The storm the station had been forecasting all week is now a hurricane, and the comments run from a Camille survivor's memories to Citrus County lakes that want the rain.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 293,555 views a day, 26 times a normal first day on this channel (11,107).

Hurricane Isaias forms in Gulf

A regular forecast on FOX 13 Tampa Bay usually ends its first day with around 11,000 views. "Hurricane Isaias forms in Gulf" passed 190,000 in just eleven hours. Its comment section, which on a normal first day gets a handful of messages, had well over a hundred.

The storm Jim Weber spent the week expecting has arrived. At the 11 a.m. advisory, Isaias had 85 mph winds and was drifting east-northeast. Weber expects it to reach Category 2, perhaps a little stronger, before wind shear over the northern Gulf starts to pull it apart. He sets the European ensembles beside Google's AI ensembles on the forecast cone, then walks through a Hurricane Warning that runs "from Ocean Springs, Mississippi, all the way over to the Bay-Gulf county line," with peak surge of up to five to seven feet. Landfall is forecast for Friday night, followed by a soaking weekend for Alabama and Georgia.

Tampa Bay is far from the bullseye, but it is not untouched. "We always talk about that right-hand side being that dirty side of the storm," Weber says. For the local coast, that means a Coastal Flood Advisory from Friday morning to Saturday morning and one to three feet of extra tide and surge.

Viewers wrote in from all along that coastline. One remembers riding out Camille in Bay St. Louis in 1969. Another writes from Pensacola, bracing for the next day. Someone in Citrus County says the lakes there have been low for months and the rain is welcome, and a charter fan is already thinking about the fishing once it passes.

Weber's colleague Dave Osterberg had a busy morning too: his cloudy, rainy Thursday forecast drew several times the crowd a FOX 13 forecast usually gets.

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The numbers

A hurricane in the Gulf pulled far more viewers to the Tampa station than an ordinary forecast does, and the comment section filled up just as quickly.

the video's first day

usual first day here

11,107

this video

293,555

subscribers

1,080,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

1,068,743,055

views per day

761,592

typical day: 340,199

the video

views

191,568

likes

854

comments

158

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

FOX 11 Los Angeles

1,360,000

CBS New York

1,200,000

CBS LA

1,160,000

FOX 13 Tampa Bay

1,080,000

FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth

1,020,000

FOX 5 New York

1,000,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.