storm. starting to look more like a classic hurricane. the bright red colors is the high cloed cirrus clouds, they are startsing to expand to the north of it. that means the wind shear is weakening. this could easily do rapid intensification over the next day or two. that s three days to intensify, then it will shoot northward. after that it will begin a weakening process. national hurricane center takes it up to 100-mile-per-hour winds by tomorrow morning, then 110 by friday morning. saturday morning they bring it to a category 3 storm. it is well of ot coast but that s going to still produce huge waves for the southeast. by it time it gets parallel to about savannah, at that point it will start going over cooler waters, wind shear will increase and it will gradually weaken. just because it is going to go to a category 3 hurricane possibly, that doesn t mean that s what will hit areas of
thankfully, danny is in the middle of the ocean, putting on quite an impressive performance in the last 24 hours. became a hurricane and now on the verge of becoming a category-2 hurricane. this about as strong as danny is going to be in its lifetime. it should weaken as we head to the weekend. on satellite, impressive img ag. has a well-defined eye. as far as the forecast, it s going to weaken from here. a slow weakening process. by the time it makes it to any islands, heading to the virgin islands, down to a tropical storm, winds 50 to 60 miles per hour. they can deal with that. they will get beneficial rains. puerto rico, does not look to be a big wind einvestment for you. we re hoping to get the rain there, and then the high terrain in the dominican republic and haiti. and what are the odds that this moisture or rain makes it to south florida where we need it? some of the computer models think some of it will try to
find out those areas that is hardest-hit. the neighborhoods without power, but those that are in immense need northern in the greater new orleans area, but also southwest of new orleans into holma, and terr terrebone parish. we wish you luck in the next few days. and we ll keep in touch with you. thank you. as far as the storm goes, right now it s in the weakening process, and we haven t been able to say that for the last 24 hours. it s not going to strengthen any more from here. as where he go throughout the will slowly bet good et more and more minute pal. we re talking about the whole left side of the storm sucking dry air in. that has been weakening the entire left side of the storm, most of the rain and the heavy rain, if there s going to be
air beginning to come in on the top hast of the storm for the northeast-northwest quadrant of the storm. as it gets closer to the eye, it tends to weaken. it has the perfect structure, it was all basically closed in. the eye is still well-defined. we re seeing the drier air and it may break it up a little bit. the long-term forecast we have from the national hurricane center shows the weakening process occurring, hopefully as we get into early friday morning. winds expected to be around 150 miles per hour. gusts stronger, up to 140. by 8:00 p.m., winds at 100 and then winds of 75. still a category one storm. this is your cone of uncertainty, the shaded area you see. keep in mind that the storm could deviate from that path. and it probably will. these storms don t just move from point to point. they wobble quite a bit. and that s going to be the situation with this particular storm. i can also tell you from where sandra was reporting live, there are parts of the coastline that by tomorr
looks almost definitely eastern north carolina, and now it looks more and more likely that the midatlantic to new england will be threatened by this storm. just got new information from the national hurricane center, so i m kind of digesting that as we go here, but the general right now the storm is trying to reorganize. this happens with these storms, the center of the eye will break apart, then it will reform. that s what s happening right now. still a category 3 storm. the hurricane center thinks it could still briefly become a category 4 storm, but then the water gets cooler and the storm will begin its weakening process. but at the same time that the storm weakens as it many comes up the east coast, it s not going to weaken in time to spare everyone. it looks like we ll get hit in southern new england and possibly a strong hurricane in eastern north carolina. by sunday at 2:00 a.m., it will already hit the outer banks as a category 2. notice the cone of uncertainty goes to washi