the wind is still parallel to the coastline here on the coast. that s where daytona beach is. there s jacksonville. the winds extend 415 miles out to the center. here s some of our current gusts. the reporter right there, south of jacksonville, down to the daytona beach area, in the middle there. they re still getting gusts off the coast in 50 to 60-mile-per-hour range. punta gorda is fine. west palm beach is fine. winds picking up in tallahassee area at 51 miles per hour. they re north of the storm but the highest winds along the northeast coastline. and that s why that river is not flowing back out the way it s supposed to. and why the storm surge is building up there. that s why we re having such an incredible problem with the storm that s coming from the south to the north on a slow journey, that s where all the issues really are. you know, we ll continue to monitor the pictures there in the jacksonville area. it s a slow moving usually, sometimes, when you get these
huge population. it would be located about here. that would be close to the northeast eye portion. they may get the winds in the middle of the night a lot higher than they were thinking. that s 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morn. let s point out a little farther. this is as we go through monday at 8:00 p.m. down to a tropical storm. notice that they don t have it going into the atlanta area. this was the other amazing step. it kind of rains itself out. once we get through monday night the winds won t cause many more issues. this is from the hurricane center. irma has a very large wind field. the hurricane forced winds still extend 80 miles from the center. so that s still 60 miles, 160 miles in all different directions. this is the mind boggling part. the tropical force winds extend outward from the center 415 miles. that s only from the center out.
charleston. a friend sent me pictures from the charleston battery. waters coming over there. savannah the highest level you ve seen. last year in matthew, there was water in homes in savannah. we could do that again today. pictures from jacksonville where we re under the flood emergency the rest of the afternoon. there are water rescues taking place and they just expanded the flood emergency all the way down the st. john s river basin. you can leave the pictures up on half the screen and i ll show you this. there s the storm circulation. the reason we re an still dealing, the winds go 415 miles out into the atlantic. that is piling water on the coast. it s a huge circulation. even though the storm is heading into georgia, why we re still dealing with problems in the areas of the east. the areas in red flash flood warnings from charleston all the way into savannah including
moving up into georgia, these are all flash flood warnings in this region. the cloud shield is still enormous. the circulation goes from the southern portion of the keys all the way up into areas like west virgin virginia. the 75-mile-per-hour winds are mostly confined out here over the open water. center of the storm is located north of tampa by 60 miles. this red shows you where we could still get hurricane gusts. the yellow shows this enormous wind field. this is where it s possible to have tropical storm gusts all the way down here to west palm beach still, ft. myers and approaching the atlanta area. almost up through myrtle beach. just a huge 415 miles from the center. that s irma s legacy, how huge it is. strongest on land right now is right around orlando. daytona beach is 46. the colors here, offshore, winds are higher, off the east coast and off the west coast. in land in the 40 to
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