starts to close in near the center, this is the conservation of angular momentum. this is the ice skater bringing their arms in close to the center. the spin gets faster near the center. that s certainly a factor. very warm sea surface temperatures, and we did see a decrease in the shear on the north side of the storm. and then the only mitigating factor honestly that we saw today was quite a bit of dry air over on the west side. some storms seem to be able to shield themselves from that. florence was able to do so for a couple of days and then was severely impacted by it. so we can do a cat 1. of course it had a totally different problem of it slowing down as it made landfall. jack parrish, appreciate what you do, you and your team. thank you very much. well, thank you. with this storm intensifying as it gets closer to landfall i want to go next to what as we just heard may be a very dangerous place indeed, destin, florida. cnn s brian todd is there for us now. what are you seei
north side of the spin, and that s where the wobbles come from. that s why your washing machine wobbles. conservation of angular momentum if you re still not in school yet you can watch that. here s what we have for you here for the rest of the day. we have an area here that is lopsided. that is the rug on the wrong side of the washing machine. if this decides to rotate toward the coast, this entire eye will wobble to the left. that s the rug. if this area here, this convection to the south, then the whole thing would wobble the other way. so we re watching for this to just go around in a circle, and not wobble and take the storm with it. that s the only real risk that we have right now for a significant change in where we are from where jacksonville is, that s where chris is seeing his rainfall. that s going to be the rest of the day. as we move you ahead from 9:30 to 10:00 to 11:00, the storm
but as the rotation starts in the midlevels of the storm, eventually like an ice skater bringing her arms in when she s standing on one skate, if her arms are out, she s spinning slowly. when they are bringing her arms in, she starts to escape very quickly and spin quickly, conservation of angular momentum, that will take me another two hours, but that s all part of how a regular thunderstorm has to be by itself really not bound bounced off by any other storm to create the perfect scenario to create the tornado and america is the place where there are more tornados than any place else. we have the jet stream, we have the mountains with dry air to our west, the gulf of mexico is the juice, the supply, for all of the moisture to make this tornado work, to make the thunderstorms get big, and the cold air can come out of canada, as well. i believe we re starting to see a little bit more rotation on these storms where if not, you have to get back to samantha,
and the leg is out, she spins slower. it s the conservation of angular momentum. more than you ever wanted to know. but anyway, when a eye gets very small, this spin gets bigger. stronger. faster. because the hurricane basically bringing its arms in. and as the arms come in, the middle of the eye gets more dangerous. the eyewalls get more dangerous. eye is still very calm, but you never want to be in that, even if you re a storm chaser, you don t want to be in the eye, because the winds are coming one way and change direction. yeah. so the whole storm system still has to turn. this is the key to this storm. and hasn t it been for now ten days, ali, waiting for the storm to turn? waiting for the paint to dry? it is still not turning. that is the line that it is on right now. so without any turn, without any deflexion, this thing makes landfall somewhere between myrtle beach and jacksonville.