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southwest of kabul san lucas. winds topping out at 130 miles per hour. this is the projected path it could help hit l.a. sometime on sunday. the wind speed could hopefully drop below hurricane status, at least that s what we think as of now. paul douglass is a senior meteorologist at, praedictix, as well as the weather columnist from the minnesota star tribune. he joins me now. first, i guess, paul, how is this happening? i m not wrong that this doesn t generally happen, shouldn t be happening? it is surreal, even for meteorologists. usually the water temperatures in the pacific are too chilly to support tropical systems, hurricanes. the warm of the water, the greater the potential for intensification. but with up welling, tradewinds coming in, west winds coming in off the pacific, it usually brings the colder water to the surface, off the coast of l.a..
concerned about. we have really been concerned about rapid intensification. this system has rapidly intensified several times. and it may not be done yet. the problem is, the gulf waters are way above average, into the upper eighties. 3 to 5 degrees above average. something new? something happened? hold on, just a second okay, storm surge 16 feet to flood in forecasts for life-threatening storm surge across coastal mississippi. due to hurricane. i d just in from the national weather service in new orleans. erin, our senior producer here. as i was saying, joe. this is a big problem. rapidly intensifying hurricane. normally we get up welling. as the system brings up cooler water from beneath the lower levels of the ocean. this really warm water, hot water really, goes way down
the storm is trying to get a deeper, lower pressure. it hasn t gone down. we don t mention this much. for the weather geeks. pressure is 953 millibars. that is a strong cat two or low cat three. this is still a cat three surge storm. it is getting close to the shore and close to the coast. it is not being interrupted. most of the storm is way offshore. this is the warm water of the gulfstream. we talked about up welling. it is moving five or six knots. warmer water is replacing the colder water which is up welled. here is the forecast. watch this. i need to keep an eye on any one spot. i ll let it go again. wilmington. finally somewhere around 3:00 this afternoon, the eye gets to you. this is the area where we go back to the beginning. this is the area that has all of the water coming up. one wave after another. new bern right there. it doesn t get out of it.
the up welling of water under the storm a good 25 to 35 feet high, erin. so with the forward momentum and force it s been carrying for days and if it makes land fall and slams into a curved koseline we could see a higher storm surge than st. augustine or jacksonville. we re extremely lucky that overnight the eye stayed off the shore of florida by 20-25 miles. the differents between catastrophic and mild to severe damage. but the model has been extremely spot on. it gave us land fall in haiti. put the exact land fall in eastern cuba and through the bahamas and stayed off shore last night. the worst though, when you look at the radar, this bright banding of orange in yellow was in the northeast all day. that is where the strongest winds and heaviest rain is.