this is why this will be a prolonged event. another reason why we ll be feeling it for such a long period of time is that it s such a large storm system. spanning 800 miles from one end to the other. the center is 310 miles away from new york city. we are already starting to feel tropical storm force wind gusts across long island and parts of new jersey. landfall later tonight around the evening or nighttime hours, across central and southern nighttime hours across central and southern portions of new jersey. it will have maximum winds then about 90 miles an hour. regardless of whener the center is, many people will be feeling the impacts from it. like we mentioned we re seeing that snow coming down portions virginia. you can see it right there on the satellite radar picture, coming down heavily across the mountains and the rain is coming down very heavily across the dc-baltimore area. we ll get reports of flooding if we re not seeing that already across places across maryland,
no major preparations here in south florida from the palm beaches it to miami. they have taken in all the beach chairs and cabana stuff except on the beach. they ll probably pull it back later. the biggish suh uis what happens after it gets past florida. we have two models. the american model and the european model. the morning run of the american model came in. now it came around to that european solution, which is looked like gloom and doom. now we have the american model bringing the center in towards long island and up towards hartford sometime monday night and tuesday. in the european model it s coming in right now. i know this is technical, fwut if that shows the same thing and we see this trend and consistency in the model trends, it s all hands on deck. this could be a situation where millions lose power by the first of the week anywhere from d-.c. baltimore and philadelphia.