3 miles per hour over the next two days, a walking pace for most of us. so the worst of the storm is clearly far from over. ivan cabrera tracking the system live from the cnn center. ivan, good morning. hey, good morning, guys. good morning. it basically has stalled. we re getting an update from the national hurricane center. one, it is basically moving, well, slower than we can walk, right? this is basically stalled out. 165 maur 165-mile-an-hour winds. six hours ago the storm was stronger at 185. it s beginning to replace its eye. they do this, and when that happens they wobble. when they interact with land masses they wobble a bit. this 165, that is not going to continue. it may ramp back up. also, a six-hour loop. i ll show you the radar. fascinating stuff coming in from miami.
but it s already kicking up dangerous surf and rip tides at our coast. and with these announcements we know that we cannot make everybody happy, but we believe that we can keep everyone alive. the atlantic basin has now experienced a category 5 hurricane four years in a row. that s unprecedented since reliable data began in the 1960s. dorian will be crawling along at 3 miles per hour over the next two days. a walking pace for most of us. the worst of the storm is clearly not over. ivan cabrera tracking the system live from the cnn center with more. that is concerning that it is so slow and the storm is over the warm atlantic waters. amara, dorian has stalled out over grand bahama island. we re looking at a category 5 hurricane that is stationary, it has stalled and that s horrible news for grand bahama.
and reported worse damage but it s just a terrifying scene. you don t have power. you don t know when you re going to get it back. this is a hurricane that is moving so slowly and it just gets stronger as it inches closer and closer to us. and it s really stalled out over us. so it is a worst case scenario. you have a category 5 that is not moving hardly at all. basically at a walking pace. over a very low line of the bahamas. many houses here are at water level. others are just above it and we re talking about a storm surge of over 20 feet, and that is just going to wipe out full communities. you hope the people who live there have already evacuated. back to you. worst case scenario, patrick ottman, live. stay safe. seeing an eerie calm in coastal florida as dorian inches closer.
georgia and south carolina under mandatory evacuation orders. and for the very latest let s bring in meteorologist janessa webb. you have been watching this storm since the weekend. how do things look right through? i wish i had better news for the bahamas here. it continues to get worse as this storm system has started to stall out right now it s out of the west at 1 miles per hour. throughout the weekend we saw about 8 miles per hour yesterday, it diminished to 5 miles per hour. this is slower than a walking pace here. it will completely stall out potentially here in the next few hours and then it s going to hover over fremont here and that s what s really going to cause the catastrophic storm surge and the major flooding in that area. so this was record setting throughout the weekend here with the sustained winds of 185 miles per hour but we saw gusts up to 220 miles per hour.
cat-5 starts at 157. dorian is on a different level. it is moving so slowly, just inching its way through the atlantic at a walking pace, leaving destruction already in its wake. the hurricane made landfall earlier today on the abaco island in northern bahamas. hurricane dorian is the strongest storm on the planet this year. 9 acting fema administrator side stepped the question when asked whether the climate crisis is contributing to storms like dorian. researchers say that we re going to see even more very intense hurricanes due to the climate crisis. do you agree with that? you know, you can look through the history of the past 25 years or so. there s been more hurricanes, more intensity. again, i think we can, we can look to that at another date, but i think the message today is for residents, especially with the newly new cat-5 is don t