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Mexico, but the surface winds and upper level winds. but you can man the dew points were going to experience for so many people will be one of the things that will help fuel the instability. some places like oklahoma city might have clearing by midday, but that will help really fan the flames in terms of the strong fiery storms in to the afternoon. thunderstorms, tornados, long track tornados all possible from the u.s. canadian border clear down to central texas, even to the big bend region. got...

Area. and bringing the risk of tornados. we are there already. they are live in the fox extreme weather. rich? >> this year we have had so few tornados and almost absurd to see this. by this time of year we would have seen 168. and you can see 0 in march. we never have seen that so far. today is the only day probably for seeing one in march. there is a broader system, colder air to the north with the snow and thunderstorms are firing here in parts of kansas and in toward southwestern missouri. t...

Be the waves thats the big problem. were starting to find winds, mid-level winds and surface winds are blowing in the same direction. instead of creating a crisscross pattern. when they go in the same direction its a wave problem. we had nine aircraft yesterday, four helicopters five fixed wings intermittent flights. not just the search area were concerned about you got a broad area and in one position or one city where theres a staging ground such as in this case its going to cause problems. wh...

Energy. good news is as we get in here and this is pleasant we havent seen this in days, were starting to see clearing. this is going to improve visibility. its going to burn off the sea fog. were going to start to see many more aircraft. the britains are sending help. south korea. australia says theyve got a p-3 o rion on standby. kuala lumpur sending a c-130. the next 24 to 48 hours indicates heavier rainfall should stay on the landmasses of malaysia to the north and southwest. as you look at ...

Saw the read area. thats the part that was circling. the point is this whole cloud formation is moving to the east and slightly to the south. mostly to the east. and the lower level winds are stronger in the area where its heeded, and theyre concerned is that -- their concern is when the surface winds are stronger, you can have this -- the rove tating clouds, which are up there, come down to the ground and create a funnel cloud and then a tornado. thats the concern. they talk about it like its a...

On the fox extreme weather center. this is something thats very disturbing. >> yeah. the video that we got in from texas earlier this week, the same set-up could bring us the risk for large destructive, long-lasting tornadoes not only today, but tomorrow and into monday. unfortunately, the worst of the weather could come in the overnight hours when people are sleeping. so if you live across the central plains, we call it tornado alley. people are used to this kind of weather. unfortunately, were...

Now, needing to vent some of that radioactive steam. we have a concern with that now because we have had a north westerly or offshore flow blowing any radioactive steam or anything thats on the ground here to the pacific. well, now we have an onshore flow and whatever is coming out of that plant is going to be blown into the populated areas here. what will happen with surface winds, unlike the upper-level winds, these change with frontal passages and areas of low or high pressure. now were going...

That moment. there are so many variables here which is why we have that evacuations on. hopefully it is large enough. we have been talking about the winds. these are surface winds, not upper level that carry things across the pacific. that is not happening and we are not talking about that. current that the surface, a regional situation with any radiation exposure and a wind shift. what we want is an offshore wind, they will be blowing from land to see in this direction here. that is what has be...

Government aircraft entering the u.s. has tested positive for radiation. >> the winds are eventually going to blow whatever is over the atmosphere in japan closer to the united states. >> right. >> and when we talked to some scientists they said the amount of radiation in any clouds that come over is going to be vastly reduced by the time it comes over here but it is certainly scary and jennifer delgado is in the weather center with more on when the clouds may make their way over here. >> i want...

Winds on the ground. they are cold. they are bitter. but as far as the radiation dispersement, well, we have marine life here. thats going to be a problem for them. as far as the good folks across northeastern japan, the off shore winds and the stronger the off shore winds the better. any radiation, of course, will be pushed out to sea. we are talking now about the surface winds, not about the upper level winds that carry them across the pacific. were not there yet. we dont think were going to g...