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Down to when the sons splashes into the ocean. so the ocean temperatures, ahead of irma, are very, very warm. were talking water temperatures of 87, 88 degrees fahrenheit. and that just is fuel for the fire. the waters through the bahamas, heading towards miami, are about the warmest theyve been all year. >> and you talked tanlt size ee of the eye. yesterday, people were talking about how perfect the eyewall was. im wondering how it looks today. >> the eye continues to have that perfect, what we...

A look at irma, were sad to report theres a lot of are you able. and because of the damage, the power outages the inibility to transbit. its taken lives and broken records its the eye of this is so distinct at 25 miles across, forecasters are calling it the stadium effect as it takes on the appearance of the bowl of a football stadium thats a question mark where it winds up. we know: torm stayed offshore, but with no interaction with land, with

Heading towards miami are about the warmest they have been all year. >> and you talked about the size of the eye, if you could just repeat how big that eye it. and i know yesterday people were talking about how sort of perfect the eye wall was. i am wondering how it looks today today. >> the eye continues to have that perfect, what we call stadium effect to it. where it looks like youre inside a circular football stadium. right now the eye is approximately 15 miles across. it is actually getting...

And so penetrating the wall was, like i said, severe turbulence and a lot of rain, and it was a small eye wall, so we had to work really quickly to drop the weather instruments. usually in a storm you have an eye thats 30 nautical miles so you have more time to work on dropping your weather instrum t instruments. in this case, everything happened so quickly with a small eye like that. theres a lot going on, and we were just having to work as a crew together and deal with the task at hand and bac...

So i was expecting this going in to patricia, but this was definitely the most severe storm that ive flown to date, as far as turbulence. >> and you were flying, i know, low, in order to get your instruments, in order to get all the data. what could you see when you looked at the surface of the ocean. >> normally when you break out in the eye, you would have what we call a stadium effect. so youd see the whole eye wall from inside the eye, which is a really good picture, and you can look straigh...

The top of the thunderstorms. its like a stadium effect, they call it, a football stadium or baseball stadium with the thunderstorms around you. an amazing job they have and amazing images we get. that storm goes around honolulu the next couple days. the heat, this does not look or feel like the end of summer. from the desert southwest to the middle of the country, 90s and 80s and september is not going to bring any relief at all, if not hotter. north dakota could hit 100 degrees on september 2n...

im carol costello. the eastern seaboard bracing themselves for the worst of irene on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is -- its wednesday, wowp halfway through the week. august 24th. welcome to "american morning." feels like its halfway through the week. he had like a hundred years of news in two days. >> we started off yesterday with what was going on in libya, these hurricane preparations, and then an earthquake. >> right. >> did you feel it? >> christine and i w...

Hurricane hunters, flying into the eye. florences wingspan, 500 miles across. astronauts needing a wide angle lens to capture it from space. on satellite, that eye wall so clearly defined. you can see towering thunderstorms swirling around the clear eye. the clouds curving outward in what meteorologists call the stadium effect. myrtle beach now directly in the path. an evacuation notice in place. and today, the beach shut down. the city warning anyone entering the water would be arrested. what i...

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