it on the generators they re fortunate. if you re familiar with the intracoastal water way, you go down from melbourne area southwards and although they may not get the strong winds on the north side, the winds will whip around the back side and in a strange way. it s not maybe the beaches that will get the worst storm surge flooding south of the melbourne area. it will actually be on the intercoastal. they ll blow the water towards and off shore, but they can t because you have the barrier islands. we have a very popular nbc station there locally. we assume and hope people are able to, while they still have power, see us maybe with a portable device. some of them are in shelters. it s not going to be fun to be in west palm tonight, but northwest wind means at least that they missed the worst of this. they did. you need to kind of go up the map. we cleared miami. miami, that he be hardly any damage whatsoever. i woke up this morning and some
because i believe this storm went three what we call an eye wall replacement cycle. an ice skater when they want to go faster, they pull their arms in tight. when you see the eye wall that is smaller, when the arms are out or wider, perhaps we are seeing some weakening. let s take a closer look at the eye wall. one of the reasons we see that it has occurred. you can start to see a merger here between the two bands of rain right here. that shows that perhaps we are seeing that. and that s a good sign. the only negative thing i mentioned earlier is that it does mean that the area where we are seeing some stronger winds not the strongest that we could potentially see, but strong winds might be a bit larger. we are looking at right now just the beginning of those really heavy rain bands coming into fort pierce. they are about to hammer melbourne. and of course we are seeing some of the outer bands, some of the rain coming in all the way inland to tampa. so that is a reason why we still hav
couple of reasons. one is the way the land mass is shaped with that curve right there over georgia. but it s also the angle at which the storm is moving. as it s moving to the northwest, it s moving like this parallel to the coast line here of florida but if it s moving in that direction all that water piles up right where that bend is. eventually it will turn away, but unfortunately we are looking at the storm surge threat and the heavy rain threat for the carolinas and georgia. i wanted to let you know what is ahead. we were talking about warm water is the fuel for a hurricane, the water temperatures are 86 degrees off the coast of floor floor. it makes a sense a quarter to a third of this storm over land that it loses its fuel on the back end of its cycle, of course it would reduce in strength. that is true, but we have to remember that we are coming over the gulf extreme, we have some of that warmer water to give it a little injection there. but you are right, as much as these
not seeing anything is we ve got this tank of an suv that is blocking us. if you bear with me for a second we are going to go run out to this marina, and i m going to show you what the ocean is doing, what the sea is doing. but then we might lose you, because it s pretty hairy out here. so come this way, you see out here the boats have been rocking back and forth, and in fact just a little while ago we saw over here this sail started unfurling on this boat. this is not the ocean proper, this is an area that is protected by islands over here, and this hurricane is still about 100 miles away. so we are starting to see those wind gusts, we are starting to see the rain really pick up. and you can see it. it s bringing the water back and forth, back and forth. this area is expecting to see a storm surge of about possibly a foot, two feet, but along the coast we are expecting to see
because the movement continues to be to the northwest, and eventually daytona beach really likely to see as the storm whether or not it hits the periphery of florida or makes land fall, most of models are saying it will stay to the east. we are going to see the long trek of the storm paralleling the coast. still a category 4 storm. right now 60 miles to the south east of fort pierce. so let s take a closer look. here is the storm and here is the latest conditions and track. the movement as i mentioned to the northwest. still a powerful category 2 or category 3 storm going into the weekend hours. eventually a category 1. it would be nice to see it further to the east. the track a little bit to the east. we still have that cone, though, covering most of melbourne, jacksonville, daytona beach all the way into coastal south carolina and coastal georgia. storm surge still a concern. whether or not the storm makes landfall, that piling up of water is so important to be aware of.