NHC statement on Hurricane Isaias making landfall near Destin, Florida:



On a February morning in 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed a joint resolution creating a national weather service under the Army Signal Corps.
Isaias has officially become a hurricane according to the NHC. Dropsonde data from an Air Force Reserve hurricane hunter aircraft confirms the status change with maximum sustained winds recorded at 75 mph (120 km/h).…