is only beginning. sandra: for those of us who have lived through hurricanes we know how scary they can be. chief meteorologist is with us tracking the storm and the latest tally on some of the winds that are being reported across that state. what are we seeing, rick? so far, john, i m glad we had the video that popped up from 2017 up in jacksonville, because jacksonville is going to get storm surge again from this storm, which is pretty hard to imagine. this is a look at the winds recorded so far, verified naples, 112 miles an hour, still with kinds of the worst of the wind offshore, it has not made its way there just yet. so we have a long road ahead. all right, every hour now we are getting an update here, so this is the 2:00 p.m. update. no changes in the last three hours, pressure still at 937 millibars, moving north/northeast at nine miles an hour. we are looking at that every hour. often times when you have a storm making landfall it starts to weaken a bit, interac
and the people will experience the wind will wind up to the point it sounds like you are standing behind an engine from a jetliner and it will blow so hard and has this very unique whistling sound to it and then all of a sudden, within about two minutes, the wind will stop and the skies will open up and you ll actually be able to see blue sky and during hurricane hugo, midnight the eye came ashore and looked up and saw stars, and thought wow, that was over quickly and then all of a sudden, about an hour later, the wind went from 0 to 120 miles an hour. the interesting thing is the hurricane is approaching, the wind starts very slowly and then comes up 20, 40, 60, 100 miles an hour, and then it stops as the eye comes ashore, and then from 0 to 100 miles an hour right away, and such a frightening experience, and that s when we discovered in charleston that a lot of the damage happened. so as we see the eye coming ashore now, sandra, the damage
hours, and already you can see right there the defined eye and it s slowly moving right towards those of you in the fort myers area, just to the north of there, and once it crosses over on to land, half the eye, what we consider to be landfall, and that s expected to happen here within about the next two hours. so, what s next for hurricane ian? basically the entire state of florida is going to be impacted by this. so, we anticipate ian continuing to take a northeasterly track into the orlando area and in 24 hours, significant rain for the orlando area and then a northerly trend towards those of you in the jacksonville area and then there is a possibility that the eyewall could end up going into the atlantic ocean before turning back right on the border of not only georgia but also south carolina. by the time it gets to charlotte, it s going to be a shell of itself.
into some of these low areas on the streets and frankly, you know, everything here in downtown fort myers is as flat as it comes as far as topography, and florida and the peninsula. we are ready. my photographer, we left that marina, he is under, this is a parking garage he s shooting from. we have two vehicles there, sitting inside, he is safe. i m safe, helmet, the whole deal, we are ready for the eyewall, i just hope that people are hunkering down in their homes or they have evacuated, one of the two. too late to evacuate now if you haven t. sandra: we are about ten minutes from when the expected hurricane at a category 4 storm is expected to make landfall. we know the eye of that storm, the eyewall has come over, we were showing the pictures at sanibel a short time ago.
john: steve, if i follow the track of this correctly as we look at the satellite picture coming ashore, in the next half hour or so, it might be completely calm where you are and then of course it will go from 0 to 100 miles an hour almost instantaneously. it s an amazing thing if you ve been through the eye as i m sure you have, john, where you get a clear blue sky and you can look up to it for a little while, and it s, you know, they are warning people not to go back out. i think they have really been aggressive in their evacuations and in their warnings. you heard the governor basically say we can t take people off the island by the shirt collar, i mean, they have done a tremendous amount, just how big this storm is. 2.5 million people have been told to evacuate their homes. so, this is not just, you know, this isn t just the county where i m standing right now, this is