it could threaten t the east cot powerful waves and powerful as well as. swells. could florida be in the storm track again. for answers all the models so far chief meteorologist rick reichmuth has been monitoring the storm from the fox weather center in new york. good evening, rick. rick: good evening, bret. not worried about florida at all they had enough with idalia. category 4 storm last night it went to a category 5 storm. went from an 80 mile-per-hour hurricane to 165 mile-per-hour cat 5 hurricane in about 12 hour period. unbelievable strengthening that s because it went over very warm water and upper level environment strengthening. notice as it most forward in its path here water temperatures cool down just a tiny bit. in some cases a little bit below average. one of the only spots below average anywhere in the atlantic basin is from some water that got pulled up from hurricane franklin about a week and a half ago. that hurricane moved over and pulled up the cooler w
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continues to gather strength, if it continues to get stronger over the warm waters of the gulf of mexico, it means that conditions here are prime for that surge to come in, and potentially flood much of where we are standing right now for the next two hours, it will be critical to see whether or not that take shape. again, very dangerous potentially catastrophic storm heading for the west coast of florida. omar? gloria, as those conditions, change i know you will do the best to stay safe, as well thank you for your, reporting stay close to you as this continues to move towards the coast. now from the sky, the hurricane looks extremely threatening, this is a life that light view of the hurricane as it churns through the gulf of mexico s warm waters towards florida s coast. coming up, we will take you back to florida live as landfall draws near.