move west northwesterly. so we re not getting that northerly component just yet. where it moves especially around naples to tampa is critical here and then turn off areas putting atlanta in the worst possible for the possible winds. that s that front ride every right quadrant. again, the eye is still off the coast. we re not looking at an eye wall per se around the center of the eye, but notice how we have the bright colors now. that is the eye wall replacement cycle. so once that band starts to tighten up, then we re going to have an increase in our speetd. again, we don t have any tornado warnings right now, but i do want to go back to what we mentioned just moments ago when i took you through the keys and then, of course, we went into fort myer. i want to back up just a little bit and show you parts of around where we were talking about march coisland. this is a storm surgery inundation map that is issued by the national hurricane center. and anderson, this is almost a worst case sc
interaction. the only thing we can tell you as far as an update it s slowing down. at 6 miles per hour now. of course that means a lot. because it continues now, which was northwesterly, more northwest. but it still has the northwesterly component, which means it s not due north. we thought by now this would have occurred so we can pinpoint better for everyone when there will be landfall. everyone wants to know when is land fall and where? it s undergoing an eye wall replacement cycle, which it has done many times in the last several days. it s slowing down. notice on the picture you are going to see wobble at the ends of the frames of the animation. that s part of the eye wall replacement cycle. last year when hurricane matthew made its way up the coast it did the same thing in the freeport, bahamas. every time you go through one of these you have a new center of the eye and you need to replot
already canceled the public schools. all right, maybe we can see this if you zoom in a little bit dennis. there has been an eye wall replacement cycle, what does that mean. well, it s as if it s trying to reorganize, it s going to be gaining some strength, it s not interacting with the coastal areas, where you see this red shaded box, this is our tornado watch, because this is where we really see the strong dynamics for tornado activity and indeed over the last 12 hours or so we see these, strong bans that start to move across. they have lots of lightning and twist in the spheatmosphere. it s very moist and unstable so we can see these fire up easily. all right, once again dennis must you can zoom in on this, there is that slight jog to the north. what does that tell us? it s just really hard to say
what he unfortunately has in his future in the next 30 minutes. we also want to point out we have seen an expansion of the watches and warnings in the last hour or so namely for places like alabama and georgia. we now see tropical storm warnings going from a watch to a warning for many of these places including the city of atlanta going from a watch to a warning. we expect those winds to be about 40 to even 45 miles per hour. here s the latest on the storm. winds right now 130 miles an hour so this is still a very powerful major hurricane at a category 4 strength. we ve noticed the eye wall starting to close up. it s likely going into another eye wall replacement cycle. the question is can it intensify before it ultimately makes landfall? those eye wall replacement cycles aren t immediate. they take time and we don t have much time left before this makes landfall, so the question is how much more can this storm intensify before it finally makes that true landfall?
the air is to look at some of these outer bands and the moich reaches far to the north but there is another thing as our meteorology group was looking at the images you can really study what that eye is doing and what the outer bands are doing and what the core of the hurricane-force winds are doing as it pulled away from the coast of cuba. and really increased. now has supporting winds of 130 miles an hour but undergoing an eye replacement cycle. you have probably heard that a lot. the inner wall starts to collapse in on itself and there are indications now that we are seeing that eye wall replacement cycle. there is not a cocentric look.