florida and when. allison. that s right, john. we take a look at the current numbers that we have right now, irma is a category 3 storm and a very strong category 3 storm. winds right now 125 miles per hour, just five miles per hour stronger and it would be a category 4 storm. you re talking a difference of 5 miles per hour here. so don t focus on the category number so much but the intensity of the winds. movement is west at about 9 miles per hour. but we have started to see at least a slight shift off to the north as well. one of the big concerns is going to be maximum wind gusts. take a look at some of these numbers. key west we re talking around 138 miles per hour. this will be at the peak as the storm is crossing over that region. naples and ft. myers also in that 130 to 130-mile-per-hour range. even tampa likely to be around 116. now, the east coast while it may not be as strong, you re still talking pretty strong wind gusts. in fact, orlando looking at 95 miles per hour for th
the danl, the power go out, the roof damage start to happen, the stuff that s going to make people scared, that s this core right here. that s the hurricane force winds. now, the stuff that s really serious, the major hurricane force winds that goes up 130-mile-per-hour, that is right in this inner eye wall right in here. and here is a better view of it. we have a radar site in key west. and then there s one located up here near miami. and this eye is what you want to avoid. that is where we ll get the worst wind damage to the right of the eye is where we ll get the worst storm surge and that s going to be over the top here of the west coast of florida. here is our current wind gusts, key west at 48. so this isn t too bad. like a bad thunderstorm during the summer. but as we go through this evening, watch these winds. 102, 95. this is not a miss print. this is at 9:00 a.m. sunday morning. key west winds are about 2 miles per hour because you re smack in
ft. myers. that s my concern. you go through the eye, 130-mile-per-hour winds potentially, maybe even gusts higher than that. that s the scary part of this storm, ari. a lot of people are going to lose power. we re going to have thousands upon thousands of damaged roofs. as far as the destruction goes, you don t want to be near that eye. thank you very much, bill karins. we ll be back with you again. kerry sanders is out in miami beach live. kerry? reporter: well, there s a little bit of activity here, but mostly this is a deserted area. this is quite a view to see it quite empty as it is. the hotels have been closed. a lot of people really are from other parts of the world. i met people today who are from belgium, from germany. one couple that s here on their honeymoon. they were told by the hotels they needed to get out. some of them took ubers to the evacuation centers. that s where there s a problem.
already a category 4 at 150, dat goir 5 starts at 156, close enough. this weather brought to you by purina, your pet our passion. there is the storm a symmetrical circle. we hate to see them when they look like a saw blade, that s when we re the most dangerous. they re headed to the bbi, the u.s. virgin islands and somewhere between cuba and the bahamas. over haiti, cuba even close it will tear itself up and not be that 140, 130-mile-per-hour storm but right now that is the forecast, probably saturday morning will be the closest approach to south florida. we ll keep watching the typing on that. we know it will be a strong storm. the temperatures in the caribbean are 86 degrees. there s nothing you can do to slow down a hurricane when you have that type of heat and here are the models right through, now there are some models and they have shifting to the left, to the left, to the left, all weekend long, very close or over
reasons a lot of people didn t want to to roll out of here was because like you said there was a prior hurricane that ran north and everybody ran scared. there have been a lot of big storms around here and a lot of things weather-wise that people don t scare away. this time, hurricane turned to category 4. reporter: clearly some of these buildings are not built to withstand the velocity of these winds, estimated 130-mile-per-hour winds. are some of the homes standing, some of them did okay? yeah. the newer homes that were built in the area i m going say since like 19 1985 and 1984, they re standing. but a lot of structures here have been poured on rain and saltwater for years. so beams get rotted out. so when the storm came in and the high winds came up and hit like it did when the eye hit the city, that just leveled all those buildings. we re used to having sunny, bright days down here, beautiful