right, derrick van dam is here now. he has humongous storms he is following in both the atlantic and the pacific. we are crossing the climate logical climb to lod we ha tropical depression helen, tropical depression 9 and norman. try to get to it all. tropical storm florence, this is the latest 5:00 a.m. update. still a tropical storm. we are noticing it s starting to get a little more organized. this is inline with what we anticipate to take place over the next 48, 72 hours and gone. look at the cone, you don t need to be a meteorologist to see what s coming here. we have all clear indication that this storm will not only strengthen but continue its west, northwesterly path.
hour and of course the heavy rainfall grounding some of those flights. now we focus our attention from linfa and look to chan-hom. this is a significant typhoon that is splitting the difference between okinawa and taiwan but it has a general west to northwesterly path that will make landfall in the east cohen coast of china in the next 24 hours. look at what is in the path of the storm, shanghai. population 24 million. we have the possibility of stronger winds, even though it will be a weakened phase. the storm will significantly impact that region with heavy rainfall and certainly gusty winds. this is the current stats on the storm. 220 kilometers an hour just below super typhoon status. we will watch for this storm carefully here at the cnn world weather center going forward. you can see the population density across the east coast of
a computer model from the cnn world weather center taking it out over the next 48 hours. you can kind of see the northwesterly path of rainfall, eventually reaching manila. 340 millimeters of rainfall. remember, we have 12 million people in and around the greater metropolitan area of manila. so this will pose a threat of flooding and urban flooding in the populated areas. legazpi, that is the area we re watching for a coastal surge, and we have the pounding effects of the wind allowing the storm surge to build roughly two to four meters. we ll watch the possibility of heavy rain in and around luzon, robyn? thank you, the city of tacloban was worried about the storm. the devastating storm hit them last november pretty much destroying the area. andrew stevens is in tacloban
rouge, new orleans. mobile. we will watch this over the weekend as it continues to pump a ton of moisture. upwards of 15, even 20 inches in isolated areas. you can see it s going to sit and spin. and that s wednesday and it s still just not even further inland. this is something that is going to cause a lot of problems across the gulf coast region. again, here is one of our forecast models showing the precipitation. looks like bull s-eye new orleans for upwards of 12 inches of rainfall. that is one of the big stories we are falling. and as jenna mentioned we are back to hurricane status for katia as it continues to make its northwesterly path. however i just want to make mention that we were thinking earlier that this was not going to be a u.s. story, but look at the computer models just within the last hour or two, they are starting to move more westerly as opposed to more
ghost imagery satellite, this is way up there. pretty hard tech, just launched in the spring. not only is it high resolution from that altitude, they can rapid scan these. they did it yesterday afternoon when the sun was up at about a one-minute interval. that s a quick time picture of how to operates. that eye is so distinct. we can take this shot any time of night, kind of the night vision. you can see the cloud canopy getting pragmented but you see a little bit of a turn. we like that. we ll take that, and that s encouraging because once. started to do that, it will continue a northwesterly path and deep away from the u.s., we gain confidence with that.