iffy if you want millions of people that don t typically go through these things they don t know how to do it. then again, if they tell them to leave, do you know how much money they re going to lose from the holiday weekend? so a big decision for the people out there in north carolina. they shouldn t be thinking about the pocketbook on this one. let me ask you this. look, i m no expert but growing up in florida i play one on tv. i find it fascinating that this storm path is staying the way it is. why isn t it doing its usual when it misses the east coast take the sort of the half circle and make the hard right turn for bermuda? the reason this one isn t, and you know it today, you stepped outside in the d.c. area, it s hot, it s humid. we re actually going to get some really big thunderstorms over the next two days on the eastern seaboard. a cold front is coming. it s going stall and let the storm come a little further to the north. that front is not going to blow through an
it s starting its journey up the coast. this is as close as the storm is going to get to florida and everyone in florida is wondersing what storm. it s a little breezy, only a few bands have hit the coast. florida, you look fine, just stay out of the beaches there, especially around daytona beach up to the jacksonville area. as far as the forecast path goes, it kind of skims the coast. of course north carolina sticks out like a sore thumb out there into the atlantic. that s why they always get hit by so many storms in the outer banks. this one is no different, it s going to be a very close call. the new update may inch this a little closer to the outer banks and we may get a direct landfall by a hurricane. the outer banks gets hit by a hurricane once every two, three years. but it s the millions of tourists that will make this interesting. imagine that you re an emergency manager and you have to make the decision whether you want to evacuate and tell all the tourists to go home or not.
storm track is our friend, bill karins, mr. meteorologist sitting up there in new york. arthur doesn t sound very scary, does it? no, it doesn t. you figure it s a storm that s probably a little drunk, doesn t know which way it s going, is it going to stumble into the coast or is it going to stumble out to sea. so what do you say, bill? that s a pretty good way of summing this storm up. hopefully it won t do too many wobbles out there. the forecast path looks pretty straightforward. the biggest question is in the next 48 hours how strong can the storm get before it gets near cape hatteras. that s the bottom line with this storm. it s going to create the rough seas regardless and rip currents from florida to the cape which is going to make your beach travels and beach day a little more treacherous than normal. but i don t think a lot of people have to cancel their beach plans. just got the new update in from the national hurricane center. overnight it got a little stronger and mor