janice: 947 is the pressure right now. steve: that is low. 947 the pressure. wow, that s low. that s the rapid inferenceification, right, janice? janice: absolutely. when you see the winds go up. 5:00 a.m. advisory they downgraded it to a category 3 i always say don t pay attention to the category because it s always been the storm surge. when you see the pressure dropping as it has dropped in the last six to 12 hours that was rapid intensification. this time yesterday we were at a category 1 storm. so the fact that we have got the warmest waters in the gulf of mexico off the coast of the big bend of florida has inenhanced that rapid intensification. steve: robert, out of curiosity, over the last couple of weeks we have been talking about how the waters off the
Here is a live look at cedar key, florida. fox weather has prepositioned a bunch of cameras in different locations. this is one of theirs. this is exactly where robert was talking about, the big bend area. and janice dean janice, how many miles away from the coast is the eye wall or rather the center of the storm? janice: the actual eye is about 7 miles away from the coast line. steve: so we re going to make landfall. janice: within the hour. ainsley: janice was thinking 8:00. janice: the national weather service has to make that call, not myself. brian: janice, we will get to you in just one minute because. ainsley: first go to fox news senior correspondent steve harrigan he is live in tar pen springs, florida slightly north of clearwater. steve, what are you seeing there? good morning, take a look at look at what downtown tar pin springs looks like right now. we are not seeing the dramatic wind yet. we have had steady rain overnight. gives you a sense of just how bi
To the national guard. the aftermath of this is going to be hairy. moving into south georgia as a hurricane and into the carolinas. be careful. heed the warnings, stay in. find high ground. take care of your family. take care of your vehicles, guys. back to you. brian: robert, how long do you think you can stay there? it looks like it s getting higher while you are talking? well, i got to say, i mean, the water has been gradually increasing all morning. and this is about the highest i have seen it in this pocket. the good news for us is beyond the camera there is a garage that goes up many floors, in fact five floors up. so we could take shelter in that if this becomes inundated up to 7 feet. that s what the prediction was by the national weather service up to 7 feet of surge. whether we see that, i just don t know. it s too hard to tell. and especially with the sun not fully up right now it s hard to gauge how many of these roads are taking it in. if you look at this, let me back
And don t take anything for granted here. we have already had 11 tornado warnings, and there are more tornadoes possible. even and especially in the very outer bands of the storm. steve and it s just getting started. even the governor s command center lost power twice during the press conference, but they have got generators. listen, we have got live fox team coverage all morning long. senior meteorologist janice dean is here in the studio m. tracking the storm. steve harrigan is in participaten springs. brandy campbell live in tallahassee. start in clearwater where robert ray is standing by and in coronado street, right, robert? cared in a dough drive to be exact. off the gulf of mexico, clearwater beach. what we are seeing and experiencing as a team myself and two photographers, fox news photographers is a very heavy
We will get that information. overnight category 4 storm downgraded a little bit to a category 3. the results are still the same. the storm surge is still going to be catastrophic. 16 feet over this very vulnerable coast line is going to cause, you know, it s going to change the coast line of this area very rim reminiscent of iaf you went through michael across the panhandle a couple of years ago, it s going to be kind of the same catastrophic damage. this is the latest storm surge by the way. so look at cedar key approaching 6 feet right now. where i believe we have robert ray and we are looking at cedar key the florida storm surge trend it s obviously peaking right now and depends on when high tide is. some coming in now. then you have feet of storm surge on top of high tide and then the waves on top of that. that s why this is the most dangerous part of this ukraine hurricane. some of the wind gusts 81 miles