Pressure Drops News Today

ian now setting its sites on the south carolina coast, as we come on the air, with the tropical storm expected to strengthen back into a hurricane as it moves, look at it there, very slowly across the atlantic and back towards the east coast, after a trail of destruction in florida. people there are reeling now from one of the worst storms that has ever hit them, and doing what they can to start picking up the pieces. sanibel island, captiva island, a storm surge, with a huge chunk of ...

dangerous move? and a story youll see first out front. were going to introduce you to a group of women learning to fire a gun for the first time. they say they dont feel safe in their cities anymore, and they are not republicans. lets go out front. and good evening, im erin burnett. out front tonight, bracing, the state of florida, thats the right word for whats happening there tonight, bracing and preparing tonight for a direct hit as hurricane ian picks up speed. the storm is now...

and there you see it. a major storm heading for the tampa area that could deliver the first direct hit there in a century then not move for nearly two full days. already people in areas are ordered to leave. the local sheriff is warning anyone who defies the order and stays, youre on your own. we just received a new advisory from the national hurricane center. were in the weather center with the very latest and new advisory. what does it say, tom? >> john, we dont have much in the way ...

weather center with the very latest. the new advisory, what does it say tom? >> well john, we dont have much the way changes except the pressure is dropping. i usually takes a while, when the pressure drops the storm get stronger. so were gonna notice areas even though the winds have not changed, still 100 miles per hour sustained winds. they will start to increase. now when the pressure drops, the equivalent to a stronger wind pattern. in fact, these are just heat engines. they feed o...

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around the eye some distance away, what happens is once it goes through the eye wall replacement cycle, the eye collapses and well watch the convection around it tighten back up like getting strong again. each time it goes through one of these and it can take several hours to do so, it gets stronger and it gets larger. this has enough time unfortunately to go through this cycle before it makes landfall so on a grander scale were already starting to see some tornado warnings in the ever...

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Weather center with the very latest. the new advisory, what does it say tom? >> well john, we dont have much the way changes except the pressure is dropping. i usually takes a while, when the pressure drops the storm get stronger. so were gonna notice areas even though the winds have not changed, still 100 miles per hour sustained winds. they will start to increase. now when the pressure drops, the equivalent to a stronger wind pattern. in fact, these are just heat engines. they feed on that war...

Cyclone refers to the speed with which this forms, and then the speed with which it moves and the power. i mean, what are you seeing? how bad could this get? >> yeah. its -- its really about the pressure dropping just like in tropical systems like hurricanes when that low pressure drops, and such a fashion in 24 hours, it bombs out. this is going to be historic, erin. this is going to go down in the record books. now, you probably have been wondering if you have been listening on the east coast,...

Of three potent areas of low pressure are riding in and slamming into the western u.s. this is the atmospheric river. pretty much a funneling of a high moisture content. sometimes when it originated near hawaii, we call it a pineapple express, but when it comes through what a bomb cyclone is, you see this with hurricanes. when the pressure drops, it gets stronger. we just had a record here. the lowest pressure ever recorded in an area of low pressure, a storm that moved off the coast of washingt...