this storm. we ve been live since 4:00 o clock in the morning. she joins us with the latest information. hey, maria. good morning. the center of sandy now is located about 385 miles to the south southeast of new york city. south-southeast of new york city. some of those wind gusts being reported at over 40 miles an hour. i did see one wind gust across reported about 37, 38 miles per hour. even though it s far away, we re miles an hour. we are feeling the impact of sandy across the new york city area. one thing i do want to point out to you guys, we have an advisory from the national hurricane center. we ll see if sandy has intensified further. the central minimum pressure is incredibly 946 millibars that. could be breaking records out across portions of the northeast as the system continues to make landfall. currently maximum sustained winds at 85 miles per hour. forecast to continue to strengthen as we head into later on today and by the time we make
one end to the other. it is in portions of long island and over 30 miles per hour wind is picking up and newark airport and j.f.k. and lagaria . dark shading in blue is wind gusts over 50 miles per hour. it is inching toward the coast and portions of baltimore seeing the wind pick up as limp landfall forecast as we head in tonight and a hurricanea nor easter type storm . big concern we talked about the storm surge in the new york area . because the center will make landfall to the south. we being see a storm surge in long island sound and new york harbor high as 11 feet. that is significant and why
trop top force wind gusts and hurricane force winds will be felt near the center of the storm. we ll high light why sandy is a super storm. we do expect major coastal flooding with storm surge 11 feet. long duration event because sandy is so large with 10 inches of rain possible in the portions of midatlantic and many of you will deal with strong winds and major tree damage could be possible and we could see power out age for millions. there is computer models so showing that the center of the storm is forecast to make landfall this evening. we don t want to focus on where the center of it is going . many of you will feel impacts and more than can i have miles per hour wind gusts and otherwise basically looking at a storm surge. and one technicality with
this is why this will be a prolonged event. another reason why we ll be feeling it for such a long period of time is that it s such a large storm system. spanning 800 miles from one end to the other. the center is 310 miles away from new york city. we are already starting to feel tropical storm force wind gusts across long island and parts of new jersey. landfall later tonight around the evening or nighttime hours, across central and southern nighttime hours across central and southern portions of new jersey. it will have maximum winds then about 90 miles an hour. regardless of whener the center is, many people will be feeling the impacts from it. like we mentioned we re seeing that snow coming down portions virginia. you can see it right there on the satellite radar picture, coming down heavily across the mountains and the rain is coming down very heavily across the dc-baltimore area. we ll get reports of flooding if we re not seeing that already across places across maryland,
strengthen and with maximum suspain sustained winds. it is it a large storm system. we ll not just talk about where the center will move. sandy spans 800 miles and so it has a little bit of everything. it has hurricane characteristics and making a transition to northeastern type storm. snowfall falling over the west virginia virge and significant snowfall will be falling. two-three feet. and factor that in with strong wind blizzard conditions are expected. that is in west virginia virge through wednesday morning and very heavy rain in the dc/baltimore area. that is it rates half an inch per hour. that is a bull s eye. the rain will continue today,