talking about high temperatures. winds off short. the good news is the winds are shifting. can you see within the last 48 hours though. of course, the pictures written credible. but the winds over the last couple of days were offshore. now they re on shore. you can actually see that wind shift within the last 12 hours offshore winds. can you see the smoke being blown in satellite loop. now they are being blown on shore. that is going to help firefighters. it s going bring the moisture in from the pacific and bring the temperatures down. so he very good news. this is going to occur throughout the next couple of days. we actually could see some rain in the first alert forecast. that s all the necessary firefighters need to hear is that weather is going to cooperate for this area that just exploded with fire yesterday. a lot of celebrities live niece n. these homes.
weather channel meteorologist mike seidel joins me live from singer island, florida, what s the latest there? reporter: hey, good morning, chris. out here the beach is getting hit pretty hard. this was expected more of a coastal impact. a lot of wind erosion. let me show you the beach erosion before we get to where it s going and what kind of impact it will have on the northeast and the mid-atlantic. as i jog down to the surfs here. the tide is going out. no issues there as the wind will be blowing northwest by then. look at the big drop-off here we ve lost four or five feet of beach but it s a slope not a direct cut. wind erosion and we re starting to get more squalls today. if you re heading to florida this weekend certainly gown in south florida, it will be very windy tomorrow and even breezy sunday, but it will be dry and it will be sunny. let s show you the satellite loop. the latest. we re waiting for the 11:00 update from the hurricane center but right now it s a category 1 hu
bit now but we re still looking at some squalls today and we could still get wind gusts 40 to 45 miles hour an hour, but really it s been a coastal storm, the beach erosion and some wind erosion, but that is it. there s been no power outages. it s a brush-by. the storm now, by the way, due east from here, same latitude, heading north. let s show you the satellite loop and the latest from the hurricane center, category 1, 80 miles an hour maximum sustained winds and it slowed down 6 miles an hour northwest and it will turn north and the weekend here in florida looks pretty good although it will be quite windy especially tomorrow. the sun will come back out. now, from the track up the coast. we ve got new models coming in, thomas, the next three hours, the american model and then the european model. the european model takes it south of ocean city, maryland, late monday. the gfss american model is a little bit later in time on tuesday up towards new york city. so, somewhere in that coasta
will feel it from 6 to 12 to 18 to 20 . but we will see rain in the drought stricken reasons. shepard: people are concerned the place it comes ashore because to the right of that is where it will be the worse. you cannot predict that but the satellite loop again, what do you think, as we watched it on the computer, does it appear to jog to the right as so many do and move east? i have to see more frames but that is something that we have to pay very close attention to because we have covered a lost hurricanes and done it together. at last minute, sometimes you see the jog to the right or the left. that will mean the difference between a slighter storm surge, slighter amount of rain, lighter wind gusts.
now. all eyes on tropical storm isaac. the storm headed toward the gulf coast after lashing southern florida and it s expected to get even stronger as the day rolls on. we have team coverage all morning long. steve brown is here in tampa. not far from us. we begin with phil keating who is live in key west, florida, where it looks bad, but phil, you say it was worst overnight. absolutely. yesterday as well. but overnight, this was the backside of tropical storm isaac. you can still see some of the localized street flooding that remains throughout the florida keys. the storm surge of one to three feet is still too early to say whether that materialized as a maximum. you can see the wind is still strong down in the florida keys and as far as the state goes, it s going to be yet another day of strong winds and strong rain, particularly if you look at the satellite loop of isaac now. it s southwest of fort myers,