continues to slide off to the north and east, those outer bands are going to continue to push very heavy rain, very gusty winds, and, yes, the potential for some tornadoes also exist across these areas as well. back to you. reporter: thank you, allison, that was a really great update. we now know that hurricane idalia has hit florida, a direct hit near keaton beach, florida, if you still have power and are still watching television, this is the time that you take shelter, that you get into an area that is as safe as possible inside. most places in florida do not have basements because the water table is so high. but get into a safe space of higher ground, try to stay out, do not get in your cars, do not try to leave now. this is not the time for it in a place like keaton beach where hurricane idalia, a category 3 storm, which means the winds are sustained at like 120 miles per hour or more.
the trail for a bit owing to a pair of criesies in the sunshine state one the racially motivated shooting and the major storm which is approaching trace. trace: indeed kevin corke live for us thank you. and let s bring in kevin corke and princeton university lauren wright. thank you both for coming on. joe to you to finish up what kevin was saying, ron desantis off the trail back on hurricane duty for a couple days, the shooting in jacksonville. he kind of flush i shalls in these tough times for floridians. well, we ve seen in hurricanes that have hit florida before trace that he has done an exceptional job in terms of preparing the state and afterwards after the damage is done repairing the state. so desantis here is at his strongest. obviously, again, this is a governor who won by nearly 20 points in november. won in blue counties such as miami dade, palm beach, and even won, you know, obviously
ocean currents, a gyre that keeps it in place as it deco decomposes. this one has broken off and has doubled in size in a month. and scientists think maybe it has to do with warmer waters due to climate change, nutrient pollution, phosphorus, nitrogen. we ve seen that sort of trigger the red tide and the toxic algae blooms around florida as well. it s hitting the yucatan peninsula now, the beaches there. it probably wouldn t hit florida until july or so. and what can be done to prevent this from hitting the beaches? i was talking to some experts actually up in maine who work with seaweed as a carbon capture tool and they say there are plenty of guys with, you know, trawler rigs, two boats pulling a net, that could get in front of it, sort of corral it, and then they would chop it up and sink it in deep ocean, which actually would be a net benefit for the planet because it captures carbon and sends it, locks it away deep on the ocean bed there as well. but right now there s no incen
a little less clear. joining us right now is a tornado expert and professor at northern illinois university. professor, so great to see you. hi, fred. great to be with you. thanks for having me. wonderful. so why is it so difficult to connect tornadoes to the climate crisis? great question. it s really their small scale. think of the size of a hurricane, like hurricane ian that hit florida earlier this year, very large storm, kind of easier to track, easier to forecast. these tornadoes like what happened on tuesday and wednesday, again, as you mentioned, nearly two dozen injuries, three confirmed fatalities, they re very small scale in the big picture of weather. and they re small-scale nature makes them very difficult to detect, track, and then attribute how a warming climate may impact their frequency or where they occur. interesting. so in december of last year, who
those high temperatures are only expected to be into the mid-20s. and then it begins to stretch even farther south. florida also being impacted once we get toward next weekend. so, again, those colder temperatures will start to filter in, not just for the usual places but also some other areas as well. oh, my gosh. allison chinchar. i m going to relabel that not bitter temperatures, i mean, that s down right mean temperatures. intolerable. thanks so much. so this storm that is bearing down on the northeast this weekend is part of the same weather system that ravaged the southeast this week, spawning deadly tornadoes and causing widespread power outages. it was brutal. at least 50 tornado reports have been made across seven states including two confirmed twisters in the new orleans area. from wildfires to hurricane, weather events are becoming bigger, stronger, more destructive, and most have had a direct link to the effect of a warming planet. but for tornadoes, that link is