coastline. national hurricane center calls the landfall where they estimate the geometric center of the center of circulation to cross the coastline. we have a long way to go until official landfall. you think that is awfully close to land a decent clip at 15 miles per hour but i would not be surprised at 4:00 o clock when we get the next update to see the shift in that direction. we have been tracking the eye and that push is happening in that turn to the northeast the hurricane hunters flying through the center of circulation making 3 passes entering into the fourth pass now that update
jane: intensification at category four has never been felt that this part of the florida coastline before. the big bend it takes a lot to have a storm bend up into that area. you can see the rapid intensification here at the trend for the minimum central pressure. look at monday afternoon. you can still see the storm come together to take on those strong characteristics it was apparent moving into the gulf of mexico. now feeding of those warmer waters. nearly perfect environment. just going back 24 hours three oh 4:00 a.m. here on the east coast yesterday at 3:00 o clock a.m. 981. now it has dropped at 944. and that relationship is inverse the lower the number of the pressure the higher the wind is going, eventually or the wind
quickly. here s the wind field you have tropical storm conditions occurring on florida s west coast but the intense inner core about a hundred miles off to the west of pinellas county and 150 miles south of the big bend. now the issue is you have this motion off to the north at about 17 miles per hour. that s going to bring that inner core to the big bend, or perhaps curving through the northern part of the nature coast here probably by about 7:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. from there, you re moving through the skinniest part of florida at a good clip, likely at that point up to about 20 miles per hour. this is going to quickly bring hurricane conditions toward places like georgia, arcing up the coast hurricane conditions possible along the coastline up into the carolinas. so this storm will have a next chapter after it makes land fall as what we re expecting to be a devastating category 4 hurricane. let s go back out to fox weather
all. we saw that farther west in the panhandle with hurricane michael. these snap off and that s going to lead to significant power outages. that extends all the way into georgia, when you have these hurricane force winds. this is going to be a huge amount of real estate that crews were going to have to work to restore this power. for folks that lose it, it could be out for a while because of the size of the job that that s going to be. jane: yeah, you talk about that but you also talk about how the impact is going to come especially across georgia and into the carolinas, as this storm kind of hooks eastward, you talk about the wind fields and how those winds are going to be wrapping up from the south. we could potentially see a worsening flood threat especially for a place like savannah charleston into the low country of the carolinas not just from the flooding rain expected to come from idalia but also too the push of those southerly winds on shore could bring in a little bit of st
a new advisory to keep in mind. this is easily detected by land-based doppler radar. the national hurricane center is giving us hourly updates with the strength and the spee that is the new update minimum central pressure an indication this is still intensifying. the max wind at 120 it does make a category three still intensifying we are reaching this to reach category four intensity. just east do north 50 miles an hour that is a path taken to the big bend region of florida. welcome back to fox weather a special welcome to our viewers on fox news channels. we are fox weather. the reason we are here we are tracking a dangerous storm system moving toward florida s coastline. jane: we will bring you the latest as it comes in we are