Steering Pattern News Today

Trying to think of the big cat 4, 5s. michael was faster than that. camille was faster than that. ive never seen this powerful of a predicted storm do this. i dont see what will speed it up. these storms are steered by big huge areas of high pressure. sometimes influenced by cold fronts or what we call troughs. very weak steering pattern for this storm. so it is moving pretty well and pretty quickly and then it will slow down. slow down. and maybe stall out or just drift across the florida penin...

Huge areas of high pressure. sometimes theyre influenced by cold fronts or what we call troughs. there is very weak steering pattern for this storm. moving pretty well and pretty quickly and then its going to slow down and maybe stall out and just drift across the florida peninsula. that just brings in so many multiple problems, especially if you have a major hurricane. you get prolonged winds. you get multiple high tide cycles and then, you know, i think its 70 or 80% of facilities are from wat...

4, 5s. michael was faster than that. camille was faster than that. ive never seen this powerful of a predicted storm do this. i dont see what will speed it up. these storms are steered by big huge areas of high pressure. sometimes influenced by cold fronts or what we call troughs. very weak steering pattern for this storm. so it is moving pretty well and pretty quickly and then it will slow down. slow down. and maybe stall out or just drift across the florida peninsula. so yeah. it just brings i...

The possibility of landfall as early as this weekend but temperatures very warm ahead of the storm, not a lot of land interaction and the storm certainly has the capability of strengthening further. heres the steering pattern, the bermuda high helping move the storm westward. we have a trough and whether or not the storm interact with the trough pushes it more northward is yet to be determined but again not to pay attention to the center of this code that anywhere within the cohen of uncertainty...

And the storm starts to get blocked. i will show you that in a second. wins into the mid-50s and the coast and well away from the center of this, going up to galveston, we are approaching tropical storm force, you get over 74, thats when you have a hurricane. weve got this high pressure toward the ease nudging it, and its going to run into this high-pressure, its going to nudge it back and get stuck here for thats why the models have been moving everywhere. when you get something without a steer...

And bp says theyre making progress on drilling two relief wells aimed at putting an end to the oil gusher. the wells are on target for completion by mid-august. residents and cleanup crews in the gulf are keeping their eye on the horizon as tropical storm alex gets closer. it could halt oil containment efforts for weeks. for more on the storm, lets go to bill karins. bill, good morning. how does it look? >> looks like the storm is growing. its not going to be a pretty day along the coast of ho...