Significant storm surge on the east coast of florida. Youre looking at major flooding events in different parts of the state and so the effects can range but youre still looking at Significant Impacts even if the storm remains hugging the coast. We have fox Team Coverage. Allison barber is live in miami. Lets start with meteorologist adam klotz tracking the storm from the fox weather center. The one thing thats not been hard to pin down about the storm is the size and intensity. This is our visible satellite. This takes the sunlight, kind of reflecting off the top of this. You can see that very defined eyewall. This is a big, powerful storm, winds at 150 miles an hour, gusting up to 185 miles an hour. Thats a category 4 storm. Its moving to the west at 8 miles an hour. It continues to slow down. Were expecting it to slow down more over the next couple days. The northern bahamas are in the way. Its staying a category 4 as it runs over the islands. By the time you get into tuesday, youre
Klotz is in the Weather Center with the latest. Adam, whats it looking like now . inaudible give you a little idea of what were talking about. He maybe tried to turn his microphone on. The storm as you can see is 400 miles or so to the east of west palm beach, florida. What adam is going to be talking about here is the track and the track has moved a little to the east and turned up north. So whereas a couple of hours ago, it looked like it was just going to slam into that area north of west palm beach, brevard county, florida, somewhere along the space coast, it now appears that the track of the storm is turning a little bit east and then north. So you can see that curve up in which would go up along the florida coast, past jacksonville, savannah and all the way back into the carolinas. Adam. Leland, do you have me . One thing to make a difference here in the storm, the National Hurricane center is the dirty side of the storm. At least appears as they will stay away from landfall. Hey
As i would remind people, as youre looking at these forecasts, a bump in one direction or the other could have really significant ramifications in terms of impact. If it bumps further east, that obviously is positive. If it bumps a little west, youre looking at really, really Significant Impacts. Laura the white house says President Trump is being briefed by fema every hour. Looking like our great South Carolina could get hit much harder than first thought. Georgia and North Carolina also, its moving around, he says and very hard to h predict except tt its one of the biggest that weve seen in dec decades. Manage havemergencies have beend in florida, georgia and South Carolina. Lets go to Allison Barber live in miami with more on storm prep efforts. Hi,a allison. Reporter the people weve spoken to in the miami area have been watching the forecast reports. They have seen in the last 24 hours that the cone of concern appears like its heading north. Officials are trying to tell them they n