A teenage boy has been killed after devastating winds from Hurricane Debby knocked down a tree which then collapsed on top of his mobile home.

The fatal weather system is predicted to rip through 10 US states after making landfall in Florida, according to one terrifying model.

More than 220,000 homes were left without power Monday morning as the 80mph Category 1 storm made landfall in Florida’s Big Bend region. A 13-year-old boy, who lived near Fanning Spring, has died after a tree crushed the roof of his home. There were other adults inside, but they were unharmed.  

Most meteorologists agree the storm will continue to batter the Sunshine State before heading north-east on Tuesday through Georgia, the Carolinas and Virginia. Several of the more dramatic projections predict the storm system will barrel through Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts through the rest of the week up to Saturday. 

‘Storm surge, strong winds, and heavy rainfall will impact a broad area of the Florida coastline overnight tonight and tomorrow,’ hurricane expert Dr Levi Cowan said.

Dr Cowan compiles storm path projections from trusted sources to create a map of all possible outcomes. His latest map for Debby shows it hurtling through almost the entire east coast while diminishing in strength to storm level. 

Dramatic photographs show parts of Florida being hammered by torrential rain and gale-force winds as the hurricane made landfall Monday morning. 

The storm hit Steinhatchee with winds of 80mph at 7am EDT according to the National Hurricane Center. 

The landfall is just 20 miles from where Hurricane Idalia struck in August 2023 as a Category 3 storm with 125mph winds, causing 12 deaths. 

Hurricane Debby has the potential top bring record-setting rainfall, catastrophic flooding and life-threatening storm surges as it moves across northern Florida. 

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