Welcome back to live coverage of Hurricane Sandy. It is set to make landfall in new jersey. They will take the full force. The effects are being felt all along the coast. Streets are rapidly flooding around the boardwalk in atlantic city. I have seen some pictures on twitter were the streets and look like rivers. They are really taking a pounding. Starting at 6 00 tonight, travel restrictions are in place in baltimore city. Only Emergency Personnel are permitted on the road. Were going to check on the latest on the storm with Tom Tasselmyer. The center is rapidly approaching new jersey. 90mile an hour wind is still estimated. It has not lost street. It is maintaining tropical characteristics right up to landfall. The forecast traffic is expected to take the storm system through the delaware bay through Northern Maryland to the mountains. Whatever is left is coming our way in the next six to 12 hours. Rainfall has been substantial and is likely to get heavier. You see these spiraling ba
Basically the same as yesterday. Almost all of the rain north and east of the center of circulation, look west of it is dry, basically in the southern part is dry as well. The only thing thats its going to help do is draw up extra tropical moisture. As of 5 00, just a few minutes ago, still 40 Miles Per Hour winds now. And its going to quickly be downgraded to a tropical depression as it drifts northward. Mainly bringing rainfall to the south carolina. Lets talk about whats en the coast. Remember, we had the tropical moisture pulling in. So right on the citrus, hernando, pasco border, you might see a shower or two. And then we have heavier pockets into sarasota coastal communities. And i looked at a 20 rain chance this morning. Mostly for areas west of 75. As the day goes on, we heat things up. Again, it is a tropical air mass. 30 at noon. 50 rain chance later today. Inland. Not a lot of effects from Tropical Storm julia. At 5 08, i will take you hour byhour through your day and leslee
Into downtown bradenton area. Theres your storm, it is tropical depression. However, take look at the satellite. Look at the difference in the presentation from 3 oclock this morning to now. Looks a lot more impressive. I think once they get a plane out there, this will easily be upgraded to Tropical Storm. We need for it to do is start to move. Because only moving north at 2. And the slower it goes more chance of intensification it will have. Still tropical to remember in big bend area. Troll cap storm warning from pasco county north and entire coastline levy county to sarasota is under a flood watch through friday. Well detail all of that stuff coming up in just a little bit. All right. Thank you, dave. And right now were getting several reports of flooding in the area. Before we get to this were actually just learning that the Clearwater Beach roundabout is being closed due to flooding they are in process of setting traffic. In meantime this live picture also concerns flooding as we
Only dormant storm. We are tracking hurricane hermine tonight. There is a lot to talk about. There is your center and if you look closely. There is a eye and now it is about to make landfall. It will be east of pensacola surrounding this. Gusts up to 85 miles perou we have reporterioned across the west coast of florida. Tomorrow morningitalready will have moved to southeastern and the carolina coastline by this time tomorrow night. Our bigger concern is what is going to happen over the next six hours because as this moves inland there is a ton of trailing moisture. We have been watching this for it isnt moving much. Eventually it will move east but then it wont move from there. So you could have this band on top of us for 30 hours. And a second band is just developing behind it. So expect heavy rains and the possibility of wind up to 60 tornado warnings north and east of the center we shall be tracking this all night long. I will let you know if it will be a problem for your holiday we
And Power Outages more than likely down the shore and these warnings continue all the way down the eastern seaboard so were not the only ones in the midatlantic or southeast that will feel the effects of hermine over the holiday weekend. Right now it is about 30 miles northnorthwest of charleston south carolina. You can see all the rain expanding to the north and east of that center now in southern parts of virginia. Youve got tornado watches through much of the carolinas and the winds right now sustained at 50 miles an hour. As we track hermine as it heads to the north and east in saturday it will be in North Carolina winds still at 50 Miles Per Hour but whats going to happen when it emerges back over the warm waters of the atlantic it will deepen, it will strengthen and once again turn into a hurricane monday morning into monday afternoon winds sustained at 75 miles an hour and then barely drift to the north on wednesday. This is the problem. You can see its going to do a littlest ha