searched july 7. thanks for watching the whole story. i ll see you next sunday. man: oh, my god. man: this is in our backyard, and it is happening right now. you can hear the wind just howling. man 1: whoa! man 2: whoa! man 1: whoa! man: this is hundred-mile-an-hour-plus winds that we were experiencing for hours. we re seeing fort myers beach getting inundated. we re seeing all of these places that we love now underwater. welcome to violent earth. i m liev schreiber. in the field of meteorology, there is no season more anticipated or feared than the atlantic hurricane season. every year, from june 1 to the end of november, millions find themselves in the crosshairs of these massive and often deadly storms. their strength and their direction hinge on complex ocean and atmospheric interactions. according to nasa, because of rising sea temperatures, we re seeing more hurricanes in the atlantic growing to category 3, category 4, or category 5 than compared to 40 years ago. in 202
learn more about these fascinating creatures students is shark week on discovery, which is also owned by cnn s parent company, wbd. it searched july seventh. thanks for watching the whole story. i ll see you next sunday you can hear the wind just howling. man 1: whoa! man 2: whoa! man 1: whoa! man: this is hundred-mile-an-hour-plus winds that we were experiencing for hours. we re seeing fort myers beach getting inundated. we re seeing all of these places that we love now underwater. welcome to violent earth. i m liev schreiber. in the field of meteorology, there is no season more anticipated or feared than the atlantic hurricane season. every year, from june 1 to the end of november, millions find themselves in the crosshairs of these massive and often deadly storms. their strength and their direction hinge on complex ocean and atmospheric interactions. according to nasa, because of rising sea temperatures, we re seeing more hurricanes in the atlantic growing to category 3,
starting to get back together. it had weak owned over northern cuba. that land interaction temporarily setback the hurricane. now that it s over the florida straits, this water is bath water felt even hotter than that. 90 degree water temperatures here. unfortunately our worst fears are starting to come through with this storm system regenerating itself. it s not even to the keys yet. so this outer eyewall still has to come a shore before things get better there. that s going to be a couple more hours yet. conditions there in the keys really about to go downhill and very quickly. in fact, an 88 mile per hour wind gust here in the last hour at marathon key. if you re familiar with keys, marathon is about halfway through that long trip from key west to miami. very healthy eyewall now. as we were talking earlier this morning, bill was showing you a double eyewall, but now we have one single eyewall and that allow this is storm to
it s actually getting smaller. it s going through another one of those, what we call eyewall replacement cycles, where there s a double eyewall right now. that outer eyewall is forming, that has a wider diameter than the inner eyewall. and it s contracting in towards the center. and normally what that does is it actually weakens the storm briefly. so what you might see overnight is you might see the hurricane bottom out in intensity, maybe weaken just a few millibars. but then once it completes that eyewall replacement cycle, it s right back to being even stronger than it was before. and irma has been amazing, because it s gone through about four or five of these cycles over the last few days. that s incredible to see. i appreciate all the work that you and all your colleagues are doing to keep us informed. richard henning, thank you.