carolinas are in dorian s sights. ainsley: our next guest wrote the books on both florida s and north carolina s hurricane history and has a warning as they prepare for this impact. brian: hurricane historian jay barnes joins us now. as you see the way it s taking shape and how big it was, what does it remind you of in north carolina s past? well, the obvious connection would be with hurricane matthew just two years ago we had along the north carolina coast a very slow-moving category 1 that stayed just right on the shoreline as it passed to the northeast. similar track to what we are experiencing with dorian. i think there will be a few differences though. this storm will probably begin to accelerate and move through more quickly than matthew did. matthew was still a devastating storm in south carolina and north carolina mostly from inland river flooding heavy rains associated with its passing. we will have to see how much rain we actually get along the eastern seaboard as this
to three degrees fahrenheit warmer. so that allowed michael to stay much stronger than it normally would have as it approached the coast. all these and more reasons why michael now takes its place in hurricane history, certainly where the state of florida is concerned. mark demaria, thank you very much for being with us from the national hurricane center in miami. we will continue to follow the latest on this history-making storm and the path it continues on tonight. but first some new reporting to get to from the washington post that once again seems to put jeff sessions name and job in play. and later the fbi director makes his first public comments about the background investigation, that investigation that helped justice kavanaugh win his confirmation. the 11th hour on a busy wednesday just getting started tonight. etire will you act or feel different? or will you just be you, without the constraints of a full time job? you can grow your retirement savings with pacific life
so it still remains somewhat of a wind threat for tonight and into tomorrow morning. it was still strengthening as it came over land. it was a strong 4, borderline 5. and i m curious how rare that was today. very rare for the storms to continue to intensify right up to the coast. particularly along the gulf coast. there s a fairly shallow shelf water there. and sometimes that mixes up and cools the ocean. but in this case for hurricane michael that didn t happen. and that was partially due to the fact that the waters in the northern gulf of mexico are much warmer than they usually are, up to three degrees fahrenheit warmer. so that allowed michael to stay much stronger than it normally would have as it approached the coast. all these and more reasons why michael now takes its place in hurricane history, certainly where the state of florida is concerned. mark demaria, thank you very much for being with us from the national hurricane center in miami. we will continue to follow the
joining me now is jay barnes. he s the author of north carolina s hurricane history. jay, it s so good to have you here. thank you so much. we know folks are preparing there. we just showed the history of some of the most devastating storms. some we didn t get to because they didn t reach the level of these storms, but what can people learn from these past storms? well, don, there are a lot of lessons to be learned. unfortunately, these storms keep coming. our problem is really permanent and repetitive. so i could add a number of others to the list you just described, and it s sort of a rogue s gallery of disasters. here in north carolina, we rank third in the nation in the number of hurricane landfalls. so the area where florence is coming in, sort of on the southeast coast there near the south carolina line or maybe even into myrtle beach area, that is a region that has seen a number of these storms. fran was a landfall near there. hazel came right through that region. so it s be
and then it stalls into saturday and then sunday. so that s the problem here is we are going to be dealing with a storm system that s going to remain in place or just slightly offshore for a matter of days. and that s why we have the potential for catastrophic link floodinlife-threatening flg the biggest threat is the water. pete: those hurricane hunters, that s a job i don t want. steve: no kidding. lisa: no thank you. steve: joining us now shut man who wrote the book about the history of hurricanes in the state of north carolina. pete: jay varnes the author of north carolina s hurricane history. he is live in raleigh, north carolina with a warning about this sergei you literally wrote the book. talk to us about how this one compares to what happened in that state before. as it turns out florence is approaching a party of the north carolina coast that s been a real hot spot for really the last 30 years with a number of other