yes, absolutely. i think it could. and it could even creep a little bit higher than that if it stays in the warm water. this storm, though, the good news right now, it has not organized today. it is still only a tropical storm. hurricane hunters are on the way right now. but even a satellite presentation doesn t look that great. here are the warnings. hurricane warnings from apalachicola all the way back here all the way down to tampa. what you will notice is that these hurricane warnings are not just along the coast. if this storm has 120-mile-per-hour wind, maybe some gusts of 140, those hurricane conditions are going to last well into a few counties into parts there of florida. so the wind is going to continue. there will be wind from the east on the other side. that s why we have the tropical storm watches over here. a lot going on here. this is going to be a storm that gets in very warm water it. doesn t have any dry air to kill it. it doesn t have any sheer for the next coupl
Hurricane Hilary weakened to a Category 1 storm early Sunday, but threats of “catastrophic and life-threatening flooding” remain as Southern California prepares for landfall. Hilary is expected to make landfall as a tropical storm, the first to hit Southern California since September 1939. The latest National Weather Advisory, issued 2 a.m. PDT on Sunday, warned of a…
let s bring in cnn s chad myers to talk about this. chad, it s kind of strange to talk about a hurricane of this magnitude heading towards southern california. how bad could it be? this will be a once in a generation or maybe longer type of storm. this will do infrastructure damage. this will wash out roadways. it may take out bridges and put an awful lot of water in places where people live. this just isn t a desert system. so 130-mile-per-hour storm. the latest advisory, the 11:00 advisory just out. the hurricane hunter aircraft is on the way to make sure, to check it out. also what was a tropical storm watch a few hours ago has now turned into a tropical storm warning for southern california from point mugu all the way south, even south of san diego. to the south of there, hurricane warnings because they re going to get hurricane conditions. i don t think we re going to see hurricane conditions in california, but it s going to be pretty close, especially on top of some of these mo
because hurricane conditions are expected there. taking you forward and where does this go? the hurricane center at 11:00, the latest update pushed it a little bit faster. now we re going to start to see effects a little bit earlier in the day. sunday, 6:00 a.m. a 90-mile-per-hour storm but off the coast of baja, ca elf. and you can t look at the middle or times for arrival here. there will be so much rainfall ahead of it. right now it s still in fairly warm water but because it s going to get into colder water that s why this thing is going to die. die off but not rapidly enough. there will still be tremendous amounts of rainfall with this. the area you see here in orange and purple, significant flash flooding will occur. without a doubt. there s just no question, it begins to rain early in the day on saturday, and it rains all day in some spots and it continues to rain on sunday where some locations could be picking up seven to ten inches of rainfall that won t pick up seven to ten i