Noah Bergren's first look at a possible Isaias in the Gulf
A storm that did not yet have a name filled a comment section that usually stays empty, with viewers writing in from Mississippi to the Carolinas.
FOX 35 OrlandoStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 221,778 views a day, 140 times a normal first day on this channel (1,578).
Tropics forecast: Potential Isaias in the Gulf
A storm that has not formed yet is already the busiest thing on FOX 35 Orlando. "Tropics forecast: Potential Isaias in the Gulf" passed 88,000 views within six hours. A regular video on the channel usually draws about 1,600 in its whole first day.
The clip is short and plain. FOX 35 Storm Team senior meteorologist Noah Bergren walks through a disturbance in the Gulf that, the description says, could become a tropical storm or more later in the week, and through where it might go. The tags call it Invest 92L, the label forecasters give a system they are watching before it earns a name. If it does, it gets Isaias, a name last used in 2020 for a hurricane that came ashore in North Carolina.
The comment section is where the reach shows. On a usual first day it stays empty. This one fills up with viewers placing themselves on the map. One thanks the station for marking Gulfport on the track when other forecasts skipped Mississippi. Others hope for rain in Georgia and the Carolinas, or sigh that Bradenton will stay dry. A few puzzle over the radar loop, which to their eyes seemed to spin the wrong way. One worries about the pumpkins and skeletons already out on the porch. Someone else is surprised that hurricane names get used again, and another brings up Camille, the 1969 storm Gulf Coast families still talk about.
The rest of the station's day looked more like its usual one. Its live newsroom streams and a breast cancer screening interview each drew hundreds of views, not tens of thousands.
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What viewers say
Great early forecast and very well explained. Best I've seen so far on this early storm.
@DavidPhillips-j4fSee it on YouTubeGreat. Now my pumpkins and scary skeletons I put on my porch are gonna end up flying to Maine...
@lmclendon6292See it on YouTubeDidn't know that they reuse names used for hurricanes.
@BobWilliams-j2lSee it on YouTube
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- Channel
- FOX 35 Orlando
- Subscribers
- 474,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,307,498
- Channel views, pace per day
- 55,604 (on a normal day: 191,884)
- Video published
- October 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 88,007 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 221,778
The numbers
The forecast's first hours stand far apart from anything else the station posted around it.
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Hurricane Camille made landfall in 1969 as one of the strongest storms on record to hit the United States. Which state's coast did it strike?
Camille came ashore on the Mississippi coast near Pass Christian and Waveland in August 1969 as a Category 5 hurricane.
