Close and right now several counties are under mandatory evacuations. Other parts of the south are under Storm Warnings as residents brace for days of heavy rain, dangerous winds and Life Threatening Storm Surge. Joining us now nbcs Marissa Parra from pinellas county, Florida And Nbc Meteorologist Bill karins. How are people there preparing for this . Reporter well, you can see some of the preparations happening behind me, and im going to go ahead and give you a little bit of a walk and talk, a show and tell if you will. These are Sandbag Preparations w we always see this when there is a hurricane or tropical storm approaching. It was within the hour, jose, that our phones were lighting up and going off, warning us of mandatory evacuations happening in this county. So were in the Tampa Bay region, pinellas county. This is one of the areas that is under mandatory evacuation for Mobile Home residents and ill tell you, talking to people on the ground here there are several people who are
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50-mile-per-hour range. maybe even down towards bar harbor. the other area of concern and we ll talk a lot about this this weekend into next week, this development zone here. right now it s not a storm. it s just beginning to form. it s too close to land right now. but by the weekend it could form over the warm waters of the central caribbean. all of our computer models show this becoming a big powerful storm, likely a hurricane next week. our american computer model has it near cancun, north of cozumel. and the europe al model has it near western cuba. as far as all of our spaghetti lines, we ll pay more attention to this once the actual storm forms. but you can see that path of uncertainty, even with the computer model. some through central cuba, others all the way through cancun. this is about an 800-mile wide area of air. that s why we re not telling anyone to prepare for this. you re watching but not reacting. you just want to make sure you have all your hurricane supplies you s
that is used to having to deal with hurricanes, but it doesn t get hit as predominantly as the caribbean or as louisiana would, those states in the gulf. it s for that reason we ve seen folks here sandbagging low-lying areas, covering up those windows as we expect gale-force winds tonight into the early morning hours. that s when fiona is expected to sideswipe bermuda as it passes by to the west. it could still be a serious situation here. there is a hurricane warning in full effect. we are starting to feel the winds start to pick up here. the minister of national defense is urging everyone to please seek shelter and do not take this storm lightly. this island took a double hit back in 2014 when it suffered from hurricanes fay and gonzalo within a one-week time span. the memory of that still very fresh here and that s why nobody here is taking this lightly, even though bermuda is not on a direct path to get hit by fiona.
it can still cause considerable damage. yeah, morgan, you look at that intensification over the last 48 hours or so and this storm is still on its way north. bill, that s why we bring you here to give us a sense of who s most at risk here and how bad this could be for the folks in newfoundland and that area north in canada. there s a chance this could be the strongest storm ever to strike canada. you hear that, you re like, whoa, they have had hurricanes before. but the pressure on this when it makes landfall or approaches nova scotia could be the lowest ever recorded in canadian history and that would mean that the winds will probably be the strongest ever recorded from a tropical or extra tropical storm in the canadian maritime. so this will be a very they have two days to prepare and on saturday is when the storm will do its worst damage through the canadian maritimes. 130-mile-per-hour winds. bermuda is not a direct hit. there s some tropical storm force winds and max gusts a