Wind Increase News Today

Wind will kick up throughout the day prompting a 9 pm Wind Advisory that will stick around until 3 pm (Wednesday).

Fingers crossed. you mentioned the rescue efforts, the recovery efforts that are going to be happening the next few hours. i want to stress how remote these outer banks are. as we were driving up and down highway 12 today, you saw volunteer firefighters, but what struck me most about this area today is the emptiness of it. there was an evacuation order here, evacuation order for a lot of the outer banks, and that was mostly heeded. as somebody who has been here before to vacation, it was erie to...

The storm may even back up, the hurricane center not believing it yet, some models saying the storm may come back offshore, likely not become a hurricane again. this is just for effect. and then back up toward galveston and houston by the end of the weekend into the early part of next week. its the amounts of rain that no one in this building can believe. we have 200 years of forecasting experience in this building and we look at it and i just have never seen the number like 3 feet, like 50 inch...

Tropical storm force winds extend up to 240 miles outward from the certainty of the storm system. a huge storm system will begin to produce tropical storm conditions as early as late tonight as well as the gulch coast. we have updates as far as the hurricane watches. we have a new one issued out from inter coastal city and louisiana to morgan city and the hurricane watch that was issued earlier yesterday from the florida panhandle to east of dest tin and indian pass have been completed. we are a...

And the wind increase follows shortly thereafter but now its getting back out over open water. thats the fuel that the storms need to allow them to intensify. as it moves further away from cuba it will get into that really warm water so we do expect it to get back up to the category 4 strength as it crosses over the florida keys and continues up the west coasts. places like naples and ft. myers are looking at a category 4 storm. however, by the time we get to tampa we expect some weakening and b...

Steve harrigan, the storm is still having quite an impact there in western florida. >> were losing him there you could hear wind on his microphone as well. thank you so much steve, stay safe. >> tampa bracing for worst with eye of irma a few hours away. >> mike tobin is live in tampa with more -- on what is going on. what it is like? >> it is increasing with intentry, one thing that forecasters have been and i think, is right about 10:00, today, they expected hurricane category 1 force winds and...