chicago, your morning commute is dry. as we go through the morning hours, this will start to fill in. and then by noon, you ll start to get the accumulating snows, probably a couple inches on the ground for that evening commute in chicago. here s the storm path. it takes a trip down here right along the ohio river and off the mid-atlantic coast. areas in white are under winter weather advisories. that s from central new jersey and much of the areas of iowa, illinois, southern wisconsin and ohio. and usually a winter storm warning means we re expecting high snow totals. even in pittsburgh area now is under a winter storm warning. how much snow are we talking about? this is not a blockbuster vent. this is not a huge bliz ar zard anything like that. this is going to be a big deal. five inches or so in chicago. indianapolis, looks like to your north you ll get the higher totals. cleveland, should be about 5. pittsburgh is a tough forecast. you re going to mix in with sleet and freezing rai
the storm is expected to make landfall from the outer banks of north carolina to the new york tri-state area. fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth has the latest projected storm path. rick? guys, you know, it s been so good that this storm the models have been so consistent on this, because it allows us to give everybody the warning they need, so there s no excuse for people not to be out of the storm s path. the latest satellite imagery, you ll notice this right here, that s dry air that s getting pulled into it. i think that means we re certainly not going to see significant strengthening of the storm before it makes landfall. one of the models we look at, the center most circle is the center of the storm. overnight it gets closer, making landfall somewhere around morehead city earlier tomorrow morning, around 8:00 or 9:00. that means anything to the east of the outer banks will take a big pummeling of this and have major impacts. gets around new york city sometime around
have serious flooding through the next two to three days. the worst of that will probably peak tomorrow night. as far as dealing with the storm path, we ll be watching this as we go throughout the next couple five to ten minutes. this is what will be updated from the hurricane center. as soon as we get that in, we ll let you know what they re calling for. thank you very much. also an update on the confirmed number of fatalities. it appears that about six people have been confirmed killed as a result of hurricane irene. newport news, virginia, an 11-year-old boy was inside an apartment with his mother. a tree, downed tree fell on to the complex killing that boy. a surfer in florida, central florida, died as a result of the waves. the big waves affecting that part of country as a result of irene, as well. so we re, again, trying to keep the numbers as accurate as possible. right now as it stands, at least three different states reporting fatalities as a result of hurricane irene. we
the storm is expected to make landfall from the outer banks of north carolina to the new york tri-state area. fox news chief meteorologist rick reichmuth has the latest projected storm path. rick? guys, you know, it s been so good that this storm the models have been so consistent on this, because it allows us to give everybody the warning they need, so there s no excuse for people not to be out of the storm s path. the latest satellite imagery, you ll notice this right here, that s dry air that s getting pulled into it. i think that means we re certainly not going to see significant strengthening of the storm before it makes landfall. one of the models we look at, the center most circle is the center of the storm. overnight it gets closer, making landfall somewhere around morehead city earlier tomorrow morning, around 8:00 or 9:00. that means anything to the east of the outer banks will take a big pummeling of this and have major impacts. gets around new york city sometime around
and administrator fugate will detail some of those efforts. now, every storm s prediction is a bit of science and a little bit of art. this one moved in, moved out, moved east, moved west, it has been category 3, it has been category 2. given the amount of rain associated with this storm, and the likelihood of flooding, however, i would encourage you not to focus too much on whether it is a category 2 or 3. if you are in the storm path, you won t be able to tell much difference. so let me introduce bill reed of the national hurricane center. he s now going to give you the most current update of the storm and its path and as i said before, we ll turn it over to administrator fugate. bill? thank you, secretary napolitano. very good words about not getting turned away with the finer details of the category. right now irene is a very classically shaped hurricane with the exception of the 81