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Significant dry air. there is also some sheer, those two things work against hurricane development. here is a look at the forward forecast radar, a lot of outer ba bands pushing into louisiana and texas, rainfall is going to be the big story with this. especially because at the this point, it is only moving three miles per hour. it has time to dump a pretty good amount of rain across both of these states. widespread amounts 4 to 6 inches, there will be some spots that pick up 8, 9, 10 inches of rain before this system finally pushes out. victor and christie, we also have some storm surge. mayb...

Dry air trying to wrap into the storm in the mid-and lower levels of the atmosphere. that is what has prevented the storm from intensifying more over the last couple of days. it's still battling the dry air. that's an enemy to hurricane development. but unfortunately all the forecast models indicate that it's moving into a more moist varmt. it's going to be easier for the to intensify the next couple daysfare people watching in florida on the southeast coast how dangerous could it get zbhoo right now forecast to be a major hurricane, 115-mile-per-hour sustained winds. you're talking about anyo...

Hurricanes you have been through before? >> reporter: this storm is all about what we call rapid inte e intensification. 24 hours ago we had a minimal hurricane, now we have one of the strongest hurricanes at the top of the scale. this is nothing to play with. irma did the same thing. this area of the atlantic with the caribbean is prime for hurricane development this year. we've seen these hushlg hurricanes spin up over the last four weeks and just go absolutely nuts in terms of intensification and strength. there absolutely is nothing to slow it down. you have perfect steering for puerto ric...

Intensifying storms that we've ever seen. in about 24 hours it went from a tropical storm all the way to a category 5 storm. one of the reasons this is an el nino year. we have warmer than normal sea surface temperatures. temperatures right along the mexican coast are running in the mid-80s. that's very ripe for hurricane development. there's also very low wind shear. so all of the environmental factors are in place. it is going to be a very, very strong storm when it makes landfall. el nino year we most of the time see above active seasons for pacific, below active for atlantic. that's just w...