impacted by weather systems worse than tropical storm strength. they had an drea in 2013. it s been a hot minute, 10 years since they had bona fide storm know cans move over gainesville. this is such a powerful storm and that forward motion, it will hold on to hurricane status and have stronger winds for a longer time. look back to other storms, where we have had hurricane warnings places like shreveport, louisiana, tracking systems piling into the gulf coast of louisiana temperature is impressive when you see hurricane warnings extendin in the land, gainesville and tallahassee and we ll check in with are brandi campbell later temperature is dark, the trees
airport is shut down, city services shut down, the bus, hope a lot of people will not be out when we feel wind speed out here. they are not expecting a lot of flooding, wind, trees coming down issue not a good combination. fox weather brandi campbell, command post for a lot of emergency operations, we ll check back in a couple minutes. ian, we want to dissect what is happening, the new update at 5:00 is big from nhc, we could see intensification at the top of the hour. we ll get a new forecast path, if we will see upgrade to category 4, that is probably where we get it. we checked in with the inland
water temperature modulated a little bit is going across the water and mixing it because cold water is underneath. if the winds are calm you end up with extremely warm water. you might have seen in the keys they measured the water temperature at 101 degrees. not unheard of. it happens. but then a thunderstorms came along and mixed the water and then it was back down to the upper 80s. so it is not all related to some kind of permanent change. sometimes the weather pattern makes it warm in the gulf. this was the case. this storm ran over a pool of very warm water in the gulf so that helped intensify it. dana: great to have you as part of our program. bret: the best in the business. let s bring in randi campbell live from tallahassee, florida.
florida as a life threatening storm surge inundates streets, bridges and homes. national weather service calling hurricane idalia an unprecedented event. the first major hurricane to mack landfall in the big bend region of the state in recorded history. warnings issued for nearly all of florida s gulf coast. right now over 300,000 power outages. that number is climbing. it doubled in the last couple hours. so far have been reported. the number could go up. brandi campbell is here from tallahassee, florida, with latest there. right now we re still feeling some slight impacts from this storm. as you can see it is still raining out here. it hasn t stopped all morning. every now and then we get the gusts of wind. we have a slight one coming through now. the main impact they were expecting in tallahassee was the power outages. you noted the large number, 300,000. 50,000 of those are here in the
this afternoon so they will be some power for them this evening. julie: the chief is saying 130,000 residents, now more than 200,000 residents across the state of florida without power. so that is something to keep in mind, folks, as well, if you don t have a generator and go home, maybe you are better off staying in a shelter with a generator. when you go home you may have no power which could make things a lot trickier. the water isn t going anywhere so no rush to get home. stay in the shelters if you have to. chief, thank you for talking to us. we really appreciate it. up next we ll take you live to tallahassee, florida, fox weather s brandi campbell is there with the latest. florida s lieutenant governor will join us with more on this historic hurricane tearing through her state. veteran homeowners, need to save money every month? call newday. pay off your high rate