of storm in the northeast. this is an actual hurricane storm surge coming through and it is here as predicted, same time. we thought it was going to happen as predicted. when is it going to leave? as soon as the winds shift around but as you can imagine, it looks like in clear water beach, someone is still stuck on cedar key, you guys. that is not a good thing that is a scary situation, 60- foot surge as opposed to a four or five foot right here. that s unbelievable. jane: very dangerous thing to see there. but, you know, talk a little bit about the different types of beaches because, bob, you were down the street a little bit more and the beach as little bit wider so as the storm surges begun to come in, interesting to see how that s going to unfold as you go down the road. ian: yeah, and by the way, bob, you re up to down the beach down to st. pete beach at least the water rises up to 2.2 so yeah, you re certainly climbing at this point. . yeah, it s going up a
which one of these counties and which part of the county does actually end up seeing the worst of this. when you re talking about the worst case scenario for surge, which is about up to 16 feet. jane: yeah, yeah, and that s the question the you take the storm surge and the wobble and the wind, that s not only a scenario that we re watching for the big bend, but even down into tampa and into st. pete clear water, you know. the change and the wind direction, how the storm comes up to the north is also going a play a role in where we re expecting to see the worst of the storm surge impacts there. tampa, bay, you know, very susceptible, the most vulnerable place in the country to take on storm surge and if we get things like up just right, now you re talking a really dangerous scenario for people who you know, in a lot of ways have been spared the worst in the last couple of times. ian: yeah, jane, i was just taking a closer look. does it appear that the right side of this fo
we re here because we re tracking a dangerous storm out in the gulf of mexico that s expended to be a category four when it arrives on florida s coastline call it somewhere around 8:00 am. jane: yeah, i think it s going to happen a lot sooner than people that people realize coming up at the start of the day. we ve got fox weather chief meteorologist bob but first here in cedar key, florida, where this camera continues to get worse et every time we look at it. the rough chop of these waves slams up on the surface of the rails and storm surge going a intensify and as that wind shifts and the push of the storm heads back into the big bend and cedar key already seeing that push of the wind at really high tide nearing two feet of a surge. this isth expected to potentially be upwards of 16 feet we re going to have to see howe things shape up especially down the coast. ian: yeah, jane that we talked a lot about the problems here.
water moving across the road. we ve got about 2.2 feet above normally dry ground so the watertion coming up. the reasonable worst case scenario for surge across that portion of the coast is up to 16 feet. that s the number that was bumped up by the national hurricane center right around midnight based on the threats that we ve seen. this is a storm that s still getting stronger. jane: stronger, slowing up in speed a bit but still moving up at a quick place and that impact of lavem should be expected by about 8:00. let me get out to clear water beach where we have bob, and the wind gusts really came in and you can hear it. how does it feel out there now? it almost seems like the worst of the band is about to come on shore. is it again? we ve got another one coming through? that s right. that s just great. no, i ll tell you, it s been one of those storms where the rain comes down and it s fast,
is, but near and just off to the right, just off to the east on the advancing side of the storm system. that s where we re expecting what with whether a we told you was the reasonable worst case seine air yee scenario for surge, where that s the national storm centre bumped those numbers up to potentially 16 feet. yeah, that s incredible to see those numbers go that high. a foot and a half of storm surge. i mean, that s unsurvivalible unsurviveable water, which in the highest case scenario was forecast for the tampa bay area. imagine that imagine that scenario there. ian: there s restaurants and bars out there, a little island into the gulf of mexico. our exclusive storm tracker mark suddeth spoke to one of the owners, one of the restaurants out there and he mentioned just the anxiety ninety-two oh, yeah.