St. pete beach up near clearwater. a few shifts near a mile or more will bring in the impact of storm surge pretty quickly. the clearwater beach reading keeps rising, 2.9 feet now. we have our bob van dilen on the beaches there, been showing how the water s crashed up on the barrier walls onto the sidewalks. they ve closed off a portion of the road there right along the beaches. this, you know, even before we see that full southwest shift into clearwater beach, that s expected to happen as idalia continues to push a little bit further up to the north, but to see numbers this high already, this coinciding with the high tide, too which is already making the problem worse, is going to be a real tough stretch as we open up the rest of the day today. ian: jane, i was speaking with cody behind me in weather command. the hurricane hunters are in the storm and they re finding a pressure which is probably somewhere high in the 940 s, somewhere around 948. keep in mind with the last update we
And, remember, we are nowhere near the eye of this storm. it is north and west of us. but these bands follow that eye, almost like puppies on a mom dog. just continues to roll through and throw hay mangers into this area. a dangerous situation as the water continues to rise here across the streets. if you are in the big bend, which is north of here, when it goes into the panhandle fishing villages up to 15 feet or more of storm surge expected in those pockets if you haven t left you will be in a dire situation. you will lose communication and power and trees are going to go down here this morning as we are about oh, an hour or so from sunlight and we will have a better assessment of how much water has come into clearwater beach. the inlet across from clearwater beach is clearwater. some of those areas are
Band that has just come in. one of our meteorologist at fox weather in new york alerted me that this was coming and, boy, was he right. because this is coming in. counterclock wizard of oz. you see the wind, you feel the rain. the water inundating these streets. this water is acting like it should be here. like it owns the street. like it s a river. they expected this surge to come in into clearwater beach. that is why mandatory evacs went into place in pinellas county the last day or so. they began the evacs on sunday. let s hope everyone went out. all we have seen this morning a few official vehicles. pinal laths county vehicle and clearwater beach high water vehicle run through here. nobody else has been here. hopefully everyone has listen to the those evacuation orders as we are seeing an imminent landfall within the next hour of this hurricane, a cat 4 up in