have our fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth with us. rick this has been rough so far. really has. three things, the storm surge that broke records in fort myers and naples as well by a lot by the way, three feet higher than we had ever seen from any kind of storm surge in the past. that obviously causing all that flooding right along the immediate coast. then we have the winds, actual verified winds of 140 miles an hour in cape corral. a lot of this wind was really prolonged because it s such a slow-moving storm and then you have the rainfall. because it s so slow we get rainfall that just continues to batter the state and we ll see big time inland flooding concerns. this made land fall in the exact same space that hurricane charlie came on shore in 2004 which is amazing to have two massive hurricanes or two strong hurricanes like this come on shore in the exact same spot, hard to imagine, because it came on so strong, it s still a category 2 hurricane after having
and what parts of south carolina do we have to worry about? yes. yes. savannah, charleston all those places, i think they re going to get hit by a hurricane. and the compounding problem with the storm surge is the pre-existing water piling up. i m sorry i m so animated about in. sean: no, i know, for those that don t know, joe is a storm chaser, he eats, breathes and sleeps this, knows every storm what was the name of the hurricane, the biggest hurricane in the 1920s? quick quiz? i m not sure 1920, but i know about the i don t think there was a big hurricane in 1920, how about that. sean: how about 1926. one year there wasn t a big hurricane. well, the 1920s window window had a lot through southern florida, 1929 cape hurricane, and 19 27, that went into savannah after hitting south florida. look at that déjà vu. sean: joe bastardi weather bell.com. thank you. we have now break developments across the state of florida now
concern from the national hurricane center, is that, as the storm moves north, those winds are going to switch and slam the water back into tampa bay. so that s why they have that storm surge alert in effect for the tampa bay area, depends on exactly how that switch happens and how quickly it happens, because it will come flooding back in if the tide happens to be right and the wind shift happens to kind of, you know, make that happen. sean: all right, bryan, very informative and helpful. thank you for that report. we appreciate it here on more with where this hurricane will be going from here, the founder of weather bell.com, our good friend, also the official meteorologist of the sean hannity radio show joe bastardi is with us. joe, you actually about 24, 30, 36 hours ago said there s a possibility this might come in more south than we think, meaning below tampa. you ended up being right in your call. let s talk about how bad well we had
has nothing to do with rising temperatures. joe bastardi chief meteorologist at weather bell.com. he is author of the climate chronicles. we are happy to have him back on the show. joe, thanks for coming back on. well, i appreciate it. tucker: what do you make of adults telling kids to leave school and join this protest? do you think that s scientifically justified? well, i think it comes down to the fact that these people pushing this, if i may quote, the whole aim of practical politics was said by m.l. minken many years ago keep the public alarmed and clamoring to run to safety. his really telling quote is the urge to rule or the urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. if you just go back in history and look, you would see how that has come about.
comes forth. there are a whole bunch of different options over here. we hate to say that it s been easy to forecast the track so far. the problem is, where does it make that turn? it makes the turn and comes up over miami like i think it does, we will be dealing with a major hurricane hitting even further up the coast in savannah and up into charleston. that s where our track is taking it. this is a very, very serious storm and everyone has to take it very seriously. sean: joe bastardi from weather bell.com. we will see you back here tomorrow. more at live coverage and other updates. coming up throughout the hour tonight on hurricane irma, later in the show. mommy come back, former speaker of the house newt gingrich will weigh in on april hypocrisy over daca. the president struck a deal with pelosi and schumer. laura ingraham will join us to talk about that and more on