How will Hurricane Ian impact Tampa Bay?

Ologists Dave Osterberg with your sky tower radar forecast. Wow Look at the center Center of hurricane and now onshore in southwest Cuba with winds. Listen to this. 125 MPH. We started the show There were 1 15. They bumped him up. As it's making landfall to 125. This is a borderline Category four hurricane. It's close. Now It's got to go over this little stretch of land, so it will either stop its intensification. Or slow it down, but it's really not going to weaken it very much once it moves out into the Gulf. It's going to go right back to re strengthening. I don't think it's seen the strongest. I don't think we've seen the strongest that this storm is going to get. Okay here's a better look. And now that we have the eye of this storm On radar. We'll be able to watch this inch by inch work its way up the coast. So if it was to make a turn to the right or slight turn to the left, we would see it. Right here in the radar, because after this, we can pick it up on the key West radar. Then we'll pick it up on our sky tower radar. So now this is kind of locked in for us over the next couple of days. There was a band of rain a very light band of rain. Coming in from the south. It's not a big deal. Just so you understand as you're getting ready to Whatever you gotta do today, slowly, this is going to drift northward and we'll get into a point where we get cloudy and everybody has some rain late today, but the winds really won't pick up until tomorrow morning to what we're anticipating. Boy Look at the convection around this storm. This is a very strong hurricane , and it's running into this land. I mean, you don't wish it upon anybody. But it's running into land right at the right time. While it's rapidly intensifying because that's going to at least shut down the process or slow it down a little bit little bit, and then a lorry intensify as it comes to the north of Cuba. 125 mile per hour winds really moving due north at around 12 MPH in the pressure continues to fall in this storm forecast path really hasn't changed, and I'm gonna zoom in on it as well because It does bring it into the Bay Area. And notice how small the cone kind of gets Now that you're a day and a half out. It's just the way it works. It's this is based on statistically the margin of error that the hurricane center works with, okay, and they're very accurate, too. So even if it was to bump to the left, which is fine, it's still going to be a significant problem for the Tampa Bay area. Let's say it bumped to the right over here. Hey this is still in the cone. Folks You can't rule it out. Remember what happened before we've seen this happen? Let's say it went here. Well then. Our Southeastern counties. Just get the worst of it. Okay so either way, parts of our viewing area are going to be hit very hard from this and the time framing Here's Wednesday night at eight. There's Thursday morning at eight. There's Thursday night at eight. So from Wednesday night at eight. Off the coast of Sarasota's county. Two. What Thursday night as 24 hours. It's only made it up to Citrix County , so off the coast of Sarah Sota to Citrus County. In 24 hours. That's why our rainfall amounts. Or what? Get me to be honest, the most nervous about this because you're going to have a very slow moving hurricane. Moving along the west coast of Florida. Dumping inch after inch of rain, while These At least tropical storm. If not, hurricane force. Winds are going to be piling the water up as well. There's no way for that fresh water to drain out, and that's my largest concern, Folks. Okay? These watches and Citrus Hernado Pasco will likely become warnings this morning. They'll just change warnings from Pinellas Hillsborough amenity service so to hurricane warnings and tropical storm warnings for inland counties Oh, to go along with us 10 inches or more of rain. There's your 5 to 10 FT. Storm surge Hillsboro and Pinellas Tropical storm winds by midday Wednesday Hurricane force by Thursday morning 5 to 10 inches of rain, isolated 15 inch of miles, significant freshwater flooding, significant storm surge damage as well. Running 5 to 10 ft. Inland. I'm sorry to the South. Sarasota Manatee even to the North Pasco Hernado Citrus. Very similar forecast to the Tampa Bay area. The only real difference will be the storm surge of 5 to 8 FT. So it's basically the same. Inland locations. Poke hardy Desoto Highlands. Winds reached tropical storm by Wednesday afternoon 40 to 60 MPH winds higher gusts 5 to 10 inches of rain. And some isolated tornadoes. That's what we are expecting. Job to the north. Jog to the South changes it that's what we're expecting. As of this very second. It's

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Length: 5min 2sec (302 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 27 2022