towards new york city, and all over the long island sound, people are saying we have one day to prepare. we have saturday. this storm is coming in a hurry. the landfall time has been up, saturday morning. we are still dealing with it as a tropical storm. it did not reach hurricane intensity quite yet. it s getting sheared and now heading towards the north finally. nine miles per hour. anna cherney to new england, it will parallel the coastline of the carolinas. how about that band at the end to the left? very unusual, doesn t happen that often. it s kind of similar to that band as to what sandy did. sandy is a different beast. it was much, much larger. sandy was a huge immense storm. this may be the same intensity but size wise no comparison. this storm will have its own problems. you notice that the winds will quickly die off, by the time we get to monday morning, wind damage is done. the wind damage of the storm is
along that eastern and northern edge of the system. you can see here to the south, not a whole lot of activity, but nonetheless, still enough energy from humberto, which is supporting winds of 15 miles per hour, to produce some heavy squalls. you ll see a pretty rough surf, but it looks like as far as the storm surge is concerned, there s going to be little, if any. now, it is moving off towards the northwest, and look at this. we don t generally see something like this, where the spaghetti models are in very, very good agreement, that this tropical system humberto will move off towards the northwest and very rapidly spin out into the open atlantic and maybe the next several days, we ll have to watch as it could possibly impact the bahamas at hurricane intensity. right now as far as florida is concerned, there are no watches, no warnings. there s a heavy surf. we re also looking at a rip current, and that makes it dangerous for people who have gone to the beautiful peninsula of florida
stories. in all the years i ve been covering hurricanes, it is heartbreaking. and what you can give is your time, your money and give them a lot of hope. we still are looking at hurricane dorian as hurricane intensity, a category 1 that is now impacting cape cod and some of these outer areas, nantucket and martha s vineyard, extending up into the gulf of maine where we re looking at significant storm surge here. but not just here, even extending into the canadian maritimes. in nova scotia, prince edward island, also newfoundland, they will see significant storm surge and local authorities are saying bring anything that could go flying, don t allow debris out because that will get blown around. this is going to be a big impact compared to what happened with
florida? the east coast of florida? probably. will it make landfall? right now that is not something that s certain, but the computer model certainly bring it in close along that space close to florida. and then we really start to diverge more. as you can imagine, the further out we go in the forecast time period, the models don t always agree. but the fact that there are all kind of closing in right along where the jetstream is, that river of current is very warm. it s the guiding force behind other hurricanes like hugo in 1989 some 30 years ago. what we think what s happening is that high pressure, the bermuda high is going to shift. when it shifts, this hurricane will take the path of least resistance and split the difference between the low in the gulf and the high pressure system. so it maintains its category 4 hurricane intensity. it looks like because of the interaction here, because it stalls out across the bahamas
gusts being reported right around the central appalachia. still nothing like we were seeing 24 hours ago. certainly not at hurricane intensity. so much so that the national hurricane center is not issuing any more advisories regarding nate. as i mentioned just about over the central appalachias, this is what we re seeing and expecting some of the highest wind gusts perhaps on the order of 75, faubel 100 kilometers per hour. but those would be extraordinary if we saw that, considering that nate is not even packing winds even that close. so over the next 12 to 24 hours we are watching nate, the remnants of it, catch up with a frontal system this weekend across the eastern seaboard. so if this is going to enhance the amount of moisture that we see across the region, here is the track of nate. it has a long history. and it wasn t until just before landfall, as nate was out over the very warm waters of the gulf of mexico that we saw it reach its hurricane intensity, and