and this is an iryeah that s geographically that water piles uhm more quickly. the shape of the coastline is like a mitt. it catches the water being pushed in but still, it s a south wind going into cedar key, which is in levy county in through here. it s not even truly perpendicular here and not a push of water and that reasonable worst case scenario for these portions of the eastern big bend inn of the nature coast is few 16 feet of surge and that was the concern earlier where we had the tampa bay metro area in the mix. this will ab catastrophic surge further up the coastline. still a significant water ride that we ve been tracking and a threat for the tampa bay area will be there tomorrow afternoon, which was already outside after major hurricane expected to be one of the highest high tides of the entire year, of all of 2023 because of the supermoon and the big push
aqua fence, the developer there designing those to withstand several feet of water and actually get stronger as the water rises, kind of creating more of a force at the pressure as the pressure from the water builds up, so that s a really good sign that they ve taken this threat as seriously as they have and put in the correct tools and resources to keep this place save safe, but as we mentioned, this is sort of just the beginning of the surge that we re seeing and as we re watching let wind sort of push against the bay here tit s tossing all that water up and over here, creating sort of a pool effect. here, i ll step over here because you ll notice there are certain areas that are a the bit more low lying than others where you can sort of see that just beginning. it may not look as much and it depends where you re standing just how low to the ground, guys, but this is really an example of what is to come throughout the morning, guys. jane: now, idalia, a major category three s
the high side, up to about six feet of surge, so this represents just a third of that so far and it s already enough to flood some streets in pinellas county, something awfully similar to what we saw back in 2020 end of the season and that never ending tropical season. that was 2020, jane, when we were already up into the greek alphabet and that was just a tropical storm that was offshore and that produced a similar similar scenes what we re seeing here. jane: you can see this water already threat smund structures as it starts to come in and granted not so deep, at least a good six inches and maybe a foot, if you take a look at some of the street signs as far as how much this water has come up but this could get worse, not only in this high tide cycle but as we were mentioning the last couple of hours, the high tide cycle that could be coming later afternoon once the storm pulls up over making landfall and up and over the border into georgia through the second half of the day tod
around but it s directly off the water. where does it go? it pushes it inland. ian: take care of that, that thing is brand new. just wanted to let you know, the water rise there is now over three feet, 3.2 so we re talking about that range, four to six feet or up to about four feet of surge possible and you re halfway there and as you just pointed out to us, we don t even have that full push for the per opinion dick you d lur direction of the coastline per opinion perpendicular area of the coastline. it s going to come all at once and now we kind of get the glancing blow but it does seem to be flowing in and we can tell just by looking at the water just how much it s ponding in and continues. here comes another hot one look at this, see. everything is reinforcing it and it s making the water go to the street and the street is not dranchingies just draining
life-threatening storm surge a surge as hurricane idalia locks in in on land. millions more fatesing facing darren us threats from the storms. ian: yeah, you can see some of the pictures from the day and some of the impacts that have been felt. wind gusts, tornado warnings. here is a look at that new advisory. you see the two jane go to a three. this is a major hurricane. jane: yeah and the storm continues to intensify as it slows up just a bit on approach, moving off to the north at about 15 mile-per-hour. but those out of outer rain bands already proving to be dangerous and we re seeing tropical storm force wind gusts and that expected to intensify as the night goes on and we re going to continue to keep coverage here on fox weather. ian: yeah, welcome back to that fox weather. we d like to offer that special welcome to our viewers on fox news tonight.