eventually north-northeast is expected to happen in the next couple of hours. ian: if you to want welcome folks, what we continue to track what is now major hurricane idalia. if you re watching us here on fox weather, if you re watching us during the overnight hours on fox news and on a number of fox affiliates across the country, we re here because we re tracking a very dangerous scenario, a major hurricane in a portion of the florida coastline that almost never seas storms like this sees storms like this, especially when in the summertime proper still this is an overnight scenario would that make a lot more sense if it was october. jane: and this storm nvery vulnerable spots along the florida coastline. you hit the big bend here and you have the storm surge potential that s so incredible, up to 16 feet in the worst case scenario and as we continue in time with the slower movement, the strengthening of the storm could that look more and more possible as the morni
hurricane center. major update comes at 2:00 a.m. the reason why we re getting hourly updates now is because the national hurricane center can see this storm on doppler radar so these are position and intensity updates. we also have the air force reserve hurricane hunters en route to the storm that will give us critical new information. not a major just yet. i think the nac is likely waiting for what the hurricane hunters have to say. jane: that s right. the information coming in from the flights has been peniche seeing the upgrades in the last beneficial in seeing the upgrades in the last couple of days. ian: each pass through the eye, they were finding lower pressure and higher winds. we ll see what they find when they get there. they re likely less than an hour out at this point. welcome back in to fox weather. we d like to welcome all of our fox viewers tonight. i m ian oliver. jane: i m jane minar. we re expecting idalia to reach the major hurricane status at som
It was at 12. oh, 12 millibars. part of that is we were in recon flights so we didn t have the data. jane: this next hour especially as the hurricane hunters continue to fly through the storm, the air force there, we re going to get critical information. we just had one pass through the center. this really on, you know, what we would consider you know coming out of the northwest, continuing into the southeast and we re likely to see this turn into the northeast quadron and the deeper convecture to my surprise has been a little to the southwest of the eye. that s going to continue to wrap up to the northeast and that s where we have the greater impacts of those rain bands that continue ooh spin off into the west coast and we re expecting to see flooding rains, that storm surge potential and it s going to slowly kick off to the northeast. it s been kinds of wobbling a little bit and we re still having that northward turn but