people, urged them to evacuate if they live near one of the construction cranes. however, i saw a lot of lights on in a lot of the towers near these cranes, so it is going to be interesting to monitor the cranes and keep an eye out to see what happens. we have seen them, dan, and it is an absolutely frightening picture that you so aptly paint there. we weren t able to see them but you ve done a great job. i wish you could see my face when you start talking about it. my eyes got as big as saucers, that s frightening. here in new york city we had that happen before, not from a storm, but just because the crane wasn t operational properly. and they have been deadly. so a lot to be concerned about there. dan, i ll let you go right now. i hope to speak with you again from wtvj, good job, thank you. to paul ulrich of global climate modeling. with a welcome to you, paul, let s get to it, what do you make of the way irma has restrengthened in just the last
storm, paul? these ginormous storms like irma, this is moving just about 6 miles an hour. is it a slower move, the larger the storm, does that have anything to do with it? not necessarily. more so governed by basically the strength of the steering winds. these are the upper level winds, the general circulation that are basically steering where exactly these hurricanes are ending up. it just happens to be that over the past couple of weeks we have seen some weakness a bit, overall steering winds, which kept many of the hurricanes basically in place. so in case of harvey, that was responsible for basically the huge dumps, precipitation, that we saw in texas. harvey just did not move very far east or west. all right. paul ulrich at the university of california davis, paul, again, thank you for your time. i wish it was under better circumstances that we met on camera here. thank you. coming up, the biggest