moment with late live update for that. our meteorologist bill kairns is standing by with the latest. all day i ve seen models bring this thing through the mouth of new york harbor. other marvels bring it through the guts of new england. neither place is used to hurricanes. neither is a good solution. and brian, i m just seconds ago looking at you at this for the first time. it came in five seconds ago. the forecast did have the center making landfall at the 5 pm advisory into the hamptons, right around southampton. it has shifted westward again. now we are making it towards islip. who is only 24 to tory four hours ago, this thing moves into buzzers bay. now in cape cod, they ve pulled their boats at the water, saying we may catch a break. but the people from long island are now all of a sudden heading
the national hurricane center, they literally came in five seconds ago, the forecast did have the center making landfall at the 5:00 p.m. advisory right into the hamptons, around south hampton, it shifted westward again. now we re making it toward eye islip. all of a sudden, 24, 48 hours ago this was in the buzzard s bay and new port and rhode island area and everyone in cape cod who pulled their boats out of the water saying they may catch a break. people from long island, now all of a sudden heading toward new york city and the long island sound, everyone is going we have one day to prepare. that s it. you have saturday. because this storm is coming in in a hurry early sunday morning. the landfall time is up. so let me go to the graphics and giving you a new update and we re still dealing with it as a tropical storm. did not reach hurricane intensity quite yet. and heading to the north finally at 9 miles an hour. and now it s going to accelerate northwards on its journey to new eng
sometimes tomorrow likely across the southern louisiana coast line. you will notice though, it s a big circulation. there is a lot of moisture well away from the center of it. where we talk about the center making landfall. that s not where the worst of this will be. we will see rainfall spreading all across the entire area. especially-likely just off towards the east of it. that s what most of our model guidance is saying. you notice this here. got some numbers pushing 20 inches of rain cutting just maybe around new orleans or just to the west of it. maybe between new orleans and baton rouge another one of our models showing baton rouge getting in toward the 20-inch range of rain. that would cause incredible flooding. obviously the mississippi river here is already at flood stage. when katrina made landfall, guys, the mississippi river was at 3-foot level. right now it s at 16 feet. and those levees are about 20 feet. only has about four feet more of space storm surge rain going to fa
goes. making landfall through the overnight hours by early tomorrow morning, perhaps still a hurricane briefly, but it does weaken fairly quickly, catches a trough and this thing is actually going to be running up into the northeast by early next week. but there is still a long time between now and then for folks right along the gulf coast. here is your future radar, again, your area of circulation, your center of it pay attention to the time stamp up in the corner. i will put it into motion for you. as i said, you are already beginning to see some of this rain. here you are at 10:00 p.m. beginning to get very close to that center making landfall. will be happening probably 11:00 to midnight. still a little bit of indecision there if it clips some of these outer barrier islands in louisiana area. lifting to the north, just lingering then unfortunately. i m taking you all the way until early tomorrow morning. and you are still looking at fairly heavy rain here right along the coast. tha