We want to extends a special welcome to our Fox News viewers. Im meteorologist are arti from our studios here in new York City and weve been covering helene over the last several hours over the last several days. This has been an extremely well forecast storm, before it even formed down in the western caribbean. It looked like something like this was going to happen, so again, we still have technically a Hurricane Storm and Hurricane Center will probably see it downgraded slowly throughout the night, but one unique thing about helene, this particular storm is that it was very large, right . So large storms take a longer time to lose their strength as they move inland so you look up here to the north. Not only do we have a long Wind Damage to get, were going to see some hikely catastrophic rain, and i want to bring Ian Oliver. He started out in st. Petersburg beach and hes now made the trek over to tampa, so kind of on the other side of town, and ian, whether you started on the of other
Extremely dangerous four. It s more than 400 miles across, pushing a storm surge that officials are calling unsurvivable is now hitting florida s gulf coast as much as 20 feet of water what are forecast along the shore south of tallahassee, which itself is expected to take a direct blow. Some coastal areas already flooding. Take a look live pictures right now from gulfport in tampa on the right interstate to 70 prison biden this evening, urge anyone in the storm s path that take it extremely seriously. A lot of water there is certainly there graham gulfport, especially emergency managers and florida s taylor county are telling people choosing to stay and there are people choosing to stay to write her name and date of birth on a leg to help identify their bodies. Storm warnings are now in effect as far north as charlotte, north carolina. We ve got cnn correspondents all along the places now harm s way in chad myers in the cnn weather center, let s start with cnn meteorologist derek van
even though it missed landfall in taiwan, it s going to be hard to miss hitting a part of southeast china. the second thing i notice is while it slows down in the next couple of days. so it makes that approach. and that s going to be bad news. once it gets to southeast china near shanghai, it s going to slowly take its time moving away and headed toward the korean peninsula. so what does that mean? that means heavy rain. any time a tropical system slows down, you can expect that. now here is a forecast of what the radar is going to look like. and you ll see what i m talking about. watch that swirl as it gets closer to shanghai. and then notice by late monday and on into tuesday, and then it kind of sits there for a while. that s going to mean a lot of rain. we could be seeing anywhere from 6 to 10 inches. could be some places that see a foot of rain. in addition, we re looking at the winds. these could pick up and perhaps move the water in hangzhou bay inland, and that could cause a st
night. i m brooke baldwin. we re talking about hurricane nate miles away from making its second landfall in the united states. let s go to tom sator in the cnn weather center whereas you have been hammering home, the storm surge concern number one. i think so without a doubt. it s not so much the winds although it s moving at 20 miles per hour and sustained winds are at 85, you couple them together and there will be some power outages. but here s the radar image. and that sets stage here for what s going to happen now. you can now see the eye, all right. this is a larger eye, it s about 35 miles in diameter. it s those tighter eyes that make stronger storms. but all of the precipitation is in the north and eastern quadrant here, there s almost nothing underneath. at 6:55 it made its first landfall, extreme section of plaquer man s paris. that was landfall number one and we re only 20 miles away from a second landfall. again, if it moves at 20 miles per hour and it s 20 miles away we