power outages is the big story. when you have gust that is high up to 80 miles per hour and a very soft ground and leaves on the trees, that s a combination for downed trees and power lines. that s why power outages could be an issue through the weekend and beyond, alex? those 10 inches of rain sounds like a lot of flooded basements and flooded roadways. everyone be careful and prepare. thank you so much, dylan dreyer. delaware is also within sandy s projected path including that area where we find weather channel meteorologist stephanie abrams from rohobeth beach. if this system comes in and we get that onshore flow and we get the surge, they do have a little protection but not a lot. as you can see they have the beach fence up. that obviously is going to be no match for the water. then they do have these dunes but they are small but there is vegetation to try to hold them in place. and then notice this hotel that is right on the beach. there s no boards up. so they are just goi
and weather officials have deployed hurricane hunter aircraft into the center of the storm. they re going to release a brand-new advisory in less than 30 minutes. so we ll get that info to you when we get it. meantime our team coverage continues. weather channel stephanie abrams is in delaware. we begin with nbc meteorologist dylan dreyer. dylan, beat get this update at the top of the hour. what are you expecting to hear? i don t expect too much to change. there is good agreement in the models that this storm is going to take that northwest turn. it seems unrealistic but it s a sharp northwest turn towards the coastline. that s inevitable. so whether it lines up in new jersey or down in delaware or washington, d.c. or even maryland, it doesn t really make a difference at this point. we are going to see very rough surf. we re going to see a storm surge perhaps as high as 4 to 5 feet, that s more than isaac. we re going to see strong gusty winds on the order of about 80 miles per hour
huge storm. and you could see that cone of uncertainty in yellow there. it could hit anywhere from new york city down to even eastern virginia. but it does look like somewhere in the new jersey area would be the bull s eye for kind of the center of the storm. most models are in agreement on that. what does this mean? the worst conditions for the mid-atlantic region, that s maryland, delaware through washington, d.c., into new jersey, even up into new york city, all kind of at the same time. because the storm is so huge. monday evening into tuesday morning that s the brunt of the storm. that s when we re going to see wind gusts up to about 80 miles per hour. sustained wind up to around 40 to 60 miles per hour. on either side of that time frame we re still going to be talking about sustained winds up near 40 miles per hour. so all day monday is miserable. all day tuesday and even into wednesday will be pretty nasty. rainfall will be around 4 to 8 inches with isolated higher amounts close
moderate but not as heavy as if the storm were a little bit closer to land. but the storm is still very far out to sea. in fact, it s still about 340 miles to the northeast of miami. so very far away. and it travels along the coastline parallel to the coastline of the carolinas for another several hours. look at monday, though, at 8:00 a.m. it starts to take that turn to the north. then it shoots to the northwest. that s when it s going to make landfall somewhere near new jersey, maryland, delaware, that whole area a little bit closer here you can see is in that cone of uncertainty. even as we narrow down the track of the storm, no matter where it hits it s not like we re looking at that direct eye wall of a hurricane to move onshore. because the storm is so huge. so we are going to see effects from basically long island all the way down to maryland and washington, d.c. and even virginia at the same time. we are looking about 8 to 10 interof rain out of this storm and a widespread swat
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