The fifth hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season Nigel developed a massive eye early this week as it continued its journey across the open waters of the central Atlantic, becoming a rare type of hurricane. AccuWeather hurricane experts have all the details on what this means for the storm and where it is heading in the coming days. Nigel was churning roughly 690 miles east-southeast of Bermuda packing winds of 85 mph, making it a Category 1 storm as of Tuesday morning. The storm i
and now we have a storm that s getting stronger as the hours progress. we have a pinhole eye. it s not the larger storms that are always the most destructive. sometimes the smaller an eye, the more compact a storm, the more ferocious they can be. irma had an eye about 23 miles in diameter. this is 11 1/2. look at the winds, two hours ago, they were 160. the last hour, 165. that would still make it the strongest hurricane ever to make landfall in puerto rico, and now we have just upped it to 175. this is amazing. you ll notice how compact they are. we call this an annular hurricane. this is going to create a world of problems. 70 miles now from st. croix. don t think they re going to take a landfall, but anything is possible. hoping to get a secondary band on this radar. that would tell us we re undergoing an eyewall replacement. that could lose strength going through the process. that s the only thing that could be helpful to st. croix, the u.s. virgin islands, pounded by
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amazing. when you look at what andrew was, much smaller, you can fit probably two of these inside irma, really this is what we call with andrew more of an annular hurricane. it s smaller, it s compact. like a little cannonball as it moves through. but with irma, the winds are so spread outward, that s where the catastrophe comes in. much more damage can occur. especially if it s sliding from the south to the north instead of just cutting off a smaller slice of the southern florida in toward the everglades. tom sader, ed rapoport, thank you very much. one island nation that has been through so much over the years is about to face more. talking about haiti. paul is there for us tonight. i believe you re in the capital of haiti. reporter: absolutely on the north shore. we were supposed to be hit with the southern, and we ve been lashed with wind. but it s heavy downpours that have been an issue. we ve got a few more hours to
joining us is the miami beach mayor. mayor levine, this updated path showing a direct hit for miami, i m wondering at this point, what are the biggest concerns, the biggest challenges you re facing? the biggest concerns that may not have left miami beach. i was on ocean drive today, which as you know, anderson is a place of parties and clubs and bars and restaurants. it was empty. that s a good sign. the streets are empty. we have been telling people to leave for about three days now. i called it a nuclear hurricane because of what we see happening in barbuda and st. martin and the united states virgin islands. the good thing is, people are listening. my concern is, are there certain people who will hole themselves up in these buildings. i don t want to see that. of course, with this hurricane, low-lying island that we are, the storm surge is very concerning to all of us. yeah, obviously there could be a very big storm surge. how do you prepare for that? i assume you have pumps and