york. we continue our special coverage. of hurricane adalja preparing big ben coast, prepare for a hurricane, they ve seen since the likes of the 18 hundreds. breaking, news just a few moments. go upgraded to a category three storm. maximum sustained winds of 120 miles an hour. forecast to reach a category four by landfall. winds of more than 130 miles an hour. storm is bringing coastal flooding in west florida. it s expected to make a hard turn east later wednesday. something more rain across georgia south carolina. but getting 12 to 16 foot storm surge in big bend area. panhandle turns to the pencil. enough to submerge most one
going to make landfall? i think it makes landfall around 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. so like less than 12 hours from right now. somewhere along the big bend area. from one side would be apalachicola, the other side steinhatchee. and i m sure we have our reporters there from steinhatchee. that s just the other side of the bend. the problem with this storm is where it s going. it s going into a catcher s mitt of topography here. there s nowhere for this water to go. this storm is gathering water under it, pushing water on the right side of it. and if there was nothing to the north it would be fine. but unfortunately, there is land there and that land is going to stop the rain and stop the water that si isurging to the north. look at the eye right now. we have not seen an eye like this the entire storm, but there it is. it just popped in the past couple of hours. that means the storm is rapidly intensifying at this hour. and hurricane hunters are flying through that right now and provin
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20 foot storm surge is possible. the idea of 130 plus mile per hour winds in the location that you are. for people who think they know with these storms might be like, does this compare to anything you have been chasing before? no. we are going to have to record breaks. a category three we have never had a hurricane up in this area, the highest has been cat to. so, category three is uncharted territory. category four we are now talking, so we are breaking to records, the first a cat three hurricane in this area of the big bend, now we are forecasting cat four. so, those are going to be to record-breaking, historic we have never had happened since we know of in the mid 1800s, late 1800s. the third category is going to be possibly the highest storm surge ever recorded, in this part of florida. so, we will break the records tonight. we will see what the pressure gets down to, that could be the fourth record we are going to pick tonight. we could break at least four records that have
hours, this is now up to 1.2 feet. and you can see live on your screen right now what that water rise looks like in cedar key. jane: the waves have grown in size. they ve crashed over the barrier here. you know. they ve already gun to flood out the road. you have the restaurant out in the distance of the camera. winds right now if you take a look at the direction of the winds, they ve not even shifted to push in the onshore flow which will make the storm surge that much worse, in fact, grow in size by nearly in the worst-case scenario 10 feet or more. this here is solely the high tide just coming in. you can see how choppy those waves are. ian: jane, i m looking at the gage here where we re getting the reading of 1.2 feet above normally dry ground at high tide. we re a half hour away from high tide in cedar key. this wasn t projected to be a big one but the one tomorrow afternoon, that s up above a foot because of the astronomical high tide. we know we have the super moon today. th