dark parts of florida already feeling the impact of the storm, many residents bracing for the full impact of ian, filling up well gas stations are still open. ian is expected to make landfall as a category three or four hurricane. earlier in forecast, possibly wednesday afternoon between sarasota and port charlotte. officials are warning residents in the hurricane s pass the time to leave and get to safety is now. i urge everyone that is in an evacuation zone, that has been asked to evacuate, the time is now. you must evacuate now. there will be a point in time where you will not be safe to travel the roads. the time to evacuate is now. get on the road. right now to cnn meteorologist pedram javaheri on more on these storms pass. the question is, how bad will it get in those areas, you know, in the evacuation zone once the storm arrives? how dangerous will it be? the national hurricane
florida. let s bring in anna j., jack an extreme storm chaser, who right now is in beach florida. erin, thank you for being with us. yeah, thank you very much for having. me okay, so to make it more extreme in size, possible storm surge, and even. it seems florida has never seen a storm like this before. you know, florida, it gets quite a few cat three and above storms. i think one in every three storms is rated cap. three you know, a couple years, ago in 2018 i was in a cat five hurricane michael. so, i certainly, they can get the big storms here in florida. in terms of size, i mean it looks like hurricane charlie, which is also a category 3, there s almost 20 threes ago, but was only 50 miles wide, or 20 miles wide. this one is five, hundred 700 miles wide. and moving , dropping a lot of water. yeah, it s a massive. storm and you know, when you get these big storms like, that like they can, cause they can make the storm surge much worse.
about a storm that is a strong category 3, forecast to get up to possibly a category 4 here. maybe 12, 14 hours before landfall. 100 miles or so south of naples at. this hour but the concern is that this comes a short far earlier, far stronger than what was initially estimated here. possibly as early as 1 pm on wednesday afternoon, as maybe late as five or 6 pm. as you notice, the guidance on the models shifting for the south as well. john, your talk about seeing these initial models keep this offshore. well, typically, 2 to 3 days out, forecast models have an average air of about 50, maybe 75 miles of spread within those model guidelines. you really cannot fall in love with any one particular guidance. but you kind of follow the trend. and every time we saw it shift south, we got a better idea that the system was probably going to end up farther south. tell you what, right now, port charlotte looks to be the most likely scenario in areas south of this region. but i would not be surpri
and that s one of the biggest concerns we ve got right now. and it s a little bit south of fort myers, and i m watching this path of the storm. and it looks like it could potentially, worst-case scenario, for the fort myers cape coral area with a massive storm like that being able to push that, that water up into the coast emergency officials seem the slow-moving nature of the storm and how long florida will be delimit. listen to fema. by the time it reaches the shores of florida, the storm is gonna slow down to approximately five miles per hour. and this is significant, because what this means is that floridians are going to experience the impacts of this storm for a very long time. a very long. time how does that translate into actual time on the ground in terms of hours or days? and when will florida actually be clear of ian? so, it looks like, once it comes onshore, make a little bit of a turn to the north and actually go right through the
occurred due to water. charlotte harbour, and the cities of port charlotte and putin gorda, are expecting the highest storm surge, with 8 to 12 feet possible. around tampa, erekat storm surges expected. a storm that slows down for 24 to 48 hours, and just continuously dumps rain into the tampa bay area is devastating. hurricane ian is expected to dump at least 2 to 3 months of rainfall by friday. possibly as much as 24 inches of rain in tampa and west central florida. it only takes 18 inches of water to be a life-threatening situation. tampa s airport taking no chances. at 5 pm today, no more commercial flights. evacuation orders expanding since monday, with shelters open for those without other options to wait out the storm. i ve never been in a hurricane. this is my first time. my first time at a shelter. but i feel better here than if