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Center. Chad, the question obviously a lot of folks want to know is when could florence hit the u. S. . Probably the first effect would be some time noon on thursday. Maybe a little earlier, outer bands kind of coming in with lashing 75mileperhour winds, but the problem is not really that were 115 right now. Its the problem of whats going on from here. The water is getting warmer, erica. Its now 85 degrees under the storm. And its forecast to be 145 and right behind here, 150mileperhour storm. Even if it loses some strength on the way into land, its going to have this massive bubble of water called a storm surge. The same type of surge that we see in every landfalling major hurricane like katrina, like hugo, like all of the big storms that push water onshore. It could be 15 or 20 feet high as it comes onshore. Then the storm is going to stop. And its going to rain a little bit like harvey. Hopefully not a lot like harvey but its forecast to come onshore, stop, and put down somewhere in ....
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