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6:00 to 7:00, here in new orleans proper, we could see wind gusts of 100 miles per hour, which could be devastating for the infrastructure, the power grid, things like that. as you look at the visible satellite picture, what is surprising a lot of people, it s over a marshy area, the hurricane ida is looking better now than it did a few hours ago. there s a phenomenon called the brown ocean. what that means is there s very, very very moist land surface that s very warm, almost like an ocean, and it drawing energy from that warmth. again, another problem, another byproduct of climate change. so there s some talk in tropical expert circles that this thing is holding together longer and staying stronger longer because of this brown ocean effect.
New-orleansWind-gustsThingsInfrastructureSatellite-picturePower-grid7001006AreaPeopleChad, how long will this last now that the winds have come and now that we are in the outer eyewall with the eye itself approaching landfall, how long will this last in this area? well, it could be anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour. the eyewall has been wiggling back and forth. there are other spots trying to develop on the inside of the eye, more storms along the inside, and sometimes we can call it brown ocean or friction affect, when a hurricane like this gets over land it gets more friction from the land. that can slow the storm down but in turn make the eyewall slower, and we go with the whole ice skater thing, if you get a smaller eye you get bigger winds. even though we are interacting with land it could make the wind speeds pick up, at least for a while. reporter: chad, let me tell you what i am seeing here in
The-eyeWindsEyewallChad-meyersAreaLandfallWiggling15StormsSpotsInsideFrictionAnywhere from big pine key to key west to maybe the tortuor t. move the into the everglades, slightly offshore, the everglades will enhance this thing because the same thing that happened to wilma, wilma actually got stronger on the way to ft. lauderdale because it hit the everglades and the water was so warm. that is years ago but you get the idea. it s called brown ocean because even though it looks like dirt, it s not. it s water. then you dp atlanta, awe gus tashgs macon, you will see wind gusts somewhere in the 60 to 70-mile-per-hour range. we re expecting wind into jacksonville, savanna, charleston, all the way to myrtle, expecting coastal flooding here and all the way back across parts of southwest texas as well or west florida as well as we will begin to see this storm finally move away sometime during the day on tuesday. anderson? chad myers, thanks for that. if you were out this hour and obviously all throughout the day, it s just crucial to try to
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