northeast of miami. so look at how huge it is. and it is bringing those rain bands along shore through north carolina and through south carolina. northeastern north carolina and southeastern virginia will be almost a pivot point that will just be stuck in rain for days. and we could end up in that area with about 10 to perhaps even 12 inches of rainfall. it s not that heavy right now. winds are strong, around 30 to 35 miles per hour, but if the storm was closer to shore, all of those conditions would be much worse. and this storm really doesn t get closer to shore until monday. monday night especially. that s when it starts to take this turn to the north. it s actually going to slide in between that cold front alex mentioned and this area of high pressure to our northeast. it s going to shoot to the west. that s what makes this unusual. and then it will lose its tropical characteristics and you re going to hear all sorts of phrases like post tropical cyclone or just a regular cyclone.
in delaware. colleagues jim can torre and mike sidell are in new york city and new jersey. they will all be joining us throughout our coverage today. we begin here in studio with nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer. what s the latest on this storm, dylan? alex, it is still a category one hurricane. it s going to fluctuate between a category one and tropical storm, back over to a category one most likely. then it takes on a whole different characteristic as it approaches the shoreline of what looks like new jersey. that s where it is expected to make landfall somewhere in the new jersey area or the del marva area. either way this is a massive storm. we re not tracking it like a hurricane in that the eye wall is going tonight area hardest hit. the whole storm is massive. we have tropical storm force winds extending 450 miles out from the center of the storm. right now sustained winds with the storm are 75 miles per hour. but it is still very far away. 340 miles almost to the
hurricane. it is most likely going to go back down to a tropical storm and then get reupgraded to a category one hurricane. eventually though taking on different characteristics. not so much hurricane characteristics as the form of something else. what is that something else? good question. this is an unusual storm. and we don t really have a name to call it. it s moving to the northwest. it s sharing energy with this cold front that s moving in from the west and it is going to develop into its own hybrid post-tropical cyclone that we will keep an eye on. right now moderate rain is falling down across the carolinas. gusts are up to around 30 to 35 miles per hour. there s no escaping that turn because of that high pressure to the north and east. this storm has nowhere to go but west. and where is it going to line up? somewhere between new jersey down through the delmarva peninsula. wherever it does line up we are going to see conditions of heavy rain, 10 to 12 inches of rain possible. s
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flooding because of the storm surge around 4 to 5 feet. that s going to erode the beaches and even inland towns just because of the amount of water that s coming down. the ground is going to get very soft. combine that with the leaves on the trees and wind gusts up near 80 miles per hour, power outages is going to be a huge concern especially as we go into the end of this week as well. alex? i know that is to be expected. dylan, thank you so much. you mentioned. let s go now to that area within the storm s projected path. rohobeth beach in particular. to al roker. it s now hurricane sandy. and this may end up being one for the record books. the reason for that is that it s a sprawling storm. we re talking about just tropical force wind extended out 450 miles from the center of the system. as it makes its way up the to t paralleling the coast we ll see this trough and jet stream doing what we call a negative tilt. that s going to pull sandy to the left and bring it onshore.