And it s sort of the way if you were to heat up a bathtub of lukewarm water with a tea kettle it would take a while. it would lukewarm until it no longer is. and it feels like the summer of 2023 we saw these numbers where people went wow, this is off the charts faster than we had anticipated. and it just creates more storm energy. it s more energy for these hurricanes. it s steroids, whatever metaphor you want to use. one degree of warming fahrenheit can lead to a 10% greater intensity of the storm. there s other factors involved, wind shear and el nino and all that stuff. but this is coming at a time when you ve got a lot of folks who know these waters, who know the hurricanes of years past and are sort of setting their risk management around the world that really no longer exists. one guy is mike baker, a captain here who s ferried presidents out on fishing trips down here. he knows these waters better than most.
Going to make landfall? i think it makes landfall around 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. so like less than 12 hours from right now. somewhere along the big bend area. from one side would be apalachicola, the other side steinhatchee. and i m sure we have our reporters there from steinhatchee. that s just the other side of the bend. the problem with this storm is where it s going. it s going into a catcher s mitt of topography here. there s nowhere for this water to go. this storm is gathering water under it, pushing water on the right side of it. and if there was nothing to the north it would be fine. but unfortunately, there is land there and that land is going to stop the rain and stop the water that si isurging to the north. look at the eye right now. we have not seen an eye like this the entire storm, but there it is. it just popped in the past couple of hours. that means the storm is rapidly intensifying at this hour. and hurricane hunters are flying through that right now and provin