pretty heavily. that s a lot of shore. that s a lot of land. there s going to be storm surge all the way down in tampa which is very low lying and floods easily, but to give you an idea of the breadth of its path, it s very large. it s almost the entire size of the gulf. and they haven t seen that, maybe they haven t seen that at all. nobody s seen that before. the eye diameter is pretty wide, which unfortunately is not good news as it makes landfall. some people may say it s similar to an ef-3 today making landfall in areas that are close to the eye. is there any way that they would struggle to deal with this hurricane. not in this area, irma did not seriously impact the florida panhandle. most of the hit for irma was in the southwest portion of florida and moved up through and created
how long it and looking at the red area, it is the area to where it is going to hit heavily, and that is a lot of shore. that is a lot of land. it is going to be four feet of storm surge all of the way to tampa bay which as you know is low lying and floods and to give you an idea of the breath of the path it is quite large. almost the entire size of the gulf when you look at it top cli and they haven t seen that maybe they haven t at all. nobody s seen that before. the eye diameter is pretty wide which unfortunately is not good yous making landfall so some people may say it s similar to an ef-3 tornado making landfall in areas close to the eye. did last year s hurricanes in the area impair the infrastructure or weaken that they would struggle to deal with this hurricane? not necessarily. irma did not heavily impact the florida panhandle. most of the hit of irma in the
what? so the storm eye diameter is smaller. think about the figure skater during the olympics and she pulls her arms in and she spins nice and quick. she does whatever that is called. that s what happened to this. so what was 130 miles an hour storm or 145 miles an hour storm gust would be 160 miles an hour storm if we got the eye to about eight miles. that s where andrew was. but that s not going to happen. but that s how we got where we are. so we raised it one category because of the wind speed. the exact pressure, 940 mill bars. the hurricane hunter aircraft still flying back and forth. the problem is typically we ll go to bed tonight, let s put this hurricane away, not this time because the storm will not move. it will not move. this is what we call a spaghetti model.