moving onshore so for the first time in a while actually have a storm instead of intensifying at landfill slightly weakening, not a lot. other concern, all of these spiraling bands through tampa and sarasota could have numerous tornado warnings and tornadoes for the tampa area, orlando, all the way back up towards jacksonville so that will be a concern later on this afternoon and evening and the georgia coastline. forecast, they take it onshore in the next hour. slow weakening process and moving fast at 17 to 20 miles per hour so even by early this afternoon we think it will be a category 1 or 2 hurricane in southern georgia. it ll be as close to you in savannah at about 6:00 p.m. this evening, that s when you could see some of your strongest winds, high tide at 8:30 and 8:00 in charleston and savannah, the coastline of georgia and south carolina, that s when we expect the worst storm surge. whoever has the strongest winds at that time, that s where we could see the major coastal flood
meandering, headed towards orlando? luckily not moving as slowly as harvey. harvey we could walk faster down the street than harvey was moving. this is moving at a good clip which will provide the widespread catastrophic flooding we saw during that storm. the problem with this storm is the winds are still strong. we still have storm surge issues along the coast. we ll walk you through that. and then we ll talk about jose. one thing at a time. it s one of those seasons where we re dealing thanks a lot. i know. i m sorry to be the bearer of bad news. you ll hear about it this week and you may as well hear about it from me before you hear about it somewhere else. wind gusts with this storm that came in today were ferocious. naples, 142 miles per hour. 130-mile-per-hour observed winds at marco island. down into the keys we had wind guses over 100 miles an hour. the storm could have been worse. the reason why, because it was a 5 before it interacted with cuba. that weakening process
thrilled for the east coast of the united states not dealing with a hurricane this weekend, no one wants to deal with the destruction that comes with it, don t want to forget our friends in the bahamas still in the middle of one of the worst hurricanes in their history, compared to andrew and floyd. we re going to hear i hope it doesn t happen, don t be surprised if you hear about death totals as you find out information over the weekend. a category four over the islands almost 36 straight hours. let s show you the storm itself. it is not far from south florida. it is amazing because now we know where it is going, we don t seem to focus as much attention on it. it is about 130 miles per hour winds, pressure starting to rise, now it is beginning to slowly start to do the weakening process. here s the forecast cone, now heading north, northeast, should miss bermuda, should miss nova scotia. we will be done 12 to 24 hours
storm. starting to look more like a classic hurricane. the bright red colors is the high cloed cirrus clouds, they are startsing to expand to the north of it. that means the wind shear is weakening. this could easily do rapid intensification over the next day or two. that s three days to intensify, then it will shoot northward. after that it will begin a weakening process. national hurricane center takes it up to 100-mile-per-hour winds by tomorrow morning, then 110 by friday morning. saturday morning they bring it to a category 3 storm. it is well of ot coast but that s going to still produce huge waves for the southeast. by it time it gets parallel to about savannah, at that point it will start going over cooler waters, wind shear will increase and it will gradually weaken. just because it is going to go to a category 3 hurricane possibly, that doesn t mean that s what will hit areas of
thankfully, danny is in the middle of the ocean, putting on quite an impressive performance in the last 24 hours. became a hurricane and now on the verge of becoming a category-2 hurricane. this about as strong as danny is going to be in its lifetime. it should weaken as we head to the weekend. on satellite, impressive img ag. has a well-defined eye. as far as the forecast, it s going to weaken from here. a slow weakening process. by the time it makes it to any islands, heading to the virgin islands, down to a tropical storm, winds 50 to 60 miles per hour. they can deal with that. they will get beneficial rains. puerto rico, does not look to be a big wind einvestment for you. we re hoping to get the rain there, and then the high terrain in the dominican republic and haiti. and what are the odds that this moisture or rain makes it to south florida where we need it? some of the computer models think some of it will try to