Steering Flow News Today

Couple storms in my coverage, 70 of these things, that defy the odds, they stop moving for a while. no guarantee. the bottom line is its moving slow, its lost its steering flow. the blocking ridge has go gone away. the impacts will be lasting. the surge on the coast, the battering waves, we had the mayor on earlier today, brian. he said they already lost a lot of sand and the core of engineers had just come in and pumped the beautiful beach behind me last winter. already day one ask theyve lost ...

What is going on there, ali? >> reporter: it is pretty rough over here. we are starting to get heavy winds and more rain, but i want to go back to north carolina to wilmington. the weather channels mike seidel is standing by for us. what is going on where you are? you seem to be getting whipped around pretty good, too. >> reporter: ali, we are getting hit pretty hard right now. this is about as strong a band as we have seen outside of the eye wall this morning. these gusts pushing 60 to about 70...

Raining. so theres the have and have nots. >> im curious why this is not moving. so often when weve covered these hurricanes, they come onshore action theyre magnificent storms and then peter out and theyre done. this one not. >> it has to do with the steering flow. we talk about the jetstream. the jetstream is fast winds up where the jets fly. that steers our storms across the country. the winds down there in texas are very light all the way, way up in the atmosphere. the storm is stuck and the...

1961. that was car la. this is the worst they have seen since 1970. they missed ik here. theyre not missing this one. this wind has been unrelenting since about dinner time friday. gusting over hurricane force. we have had gusts upwards of 125 miles per hour plus. that area including rock port those areas getting hit very hard. and reports of structural damage. the hurricane froze on its brakes. theres no steering flow. this will last through a good part of the weekend. imagine that. this is not...

Part of sunday and the battering waves on the beaches, not so much here. let walk back through here. give you an idea of whats going on again. remember, the big difference with harvey versus any other hurricane weve seen maybe in memory, it could make two landfalls in texas. its got no steering flow. its going to slow down tonight and throw on its brakes. so for the next several days, at least, its going to meander in texas, maybe near the coast. maybe inland. that will impact the rain totals in...

And the issue with this entire system, whether its anna or not, its blocked in by the steering flow. this is going hang around until probably sunday. so talk about bad beach weather today into sunday, not great, sunny skies which would be great coming down for mothers day weekend. well watch it for you here at the weather channel. it is very early in the season. the official start to the hurricane season is june 1st. when you have an early season storm, generally the rest of the season is quiete...