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Atmospheric scientist at the institute of marine and coastal sciences at rutgers university. she joins us via skype. doctor, can we point to anything that's causing the extreme weather here? >> well, yes, as a matter of fact, we can point to a number of things that are related to the changing climate system. for one thing, the atmosphere is warmer. a warmer atmosphere has more energy in it. any storm that forms has more energy to work with. we're also seeing that there's more moisture in the atmosphere. that moisture not only provides initial precipitation for storms but it also, when it conde...

From north florida to the carolinas and georgia, everyone needs to be prepared for the landfall of a u the. we need several more runs and days to hone in on the location, but nevertheless, the entire southeast coast, unfortunately, you're in the fireline. when can we expect this and when? tropical storm florence is teetering on becoming a hurricane. it is moving into very warm waters, very low sheer in the upper levels of the atmosphere. favorable conditions for hurricane development. now a potential u.s. landfall still five days away. there is a slim chance that this storm still recurves away...

Tranquil spring. our weather bell hurricane forecast came out in march and said even though we're going to be below normal with total storms the problem is this year we're going to see them try to develop in close to the coast. we may have an early season development. i think this system off the south atlantic coast we've sent out ideas on this ten days ago that this could develop this week. i think it is going to develop and come into the carolinas this weekend. that would be a very early hit. while that is going on there's severe water likely this weekend over the central plains. the same lo...

I must stress, this is the season. but it's been a wacky season. we're going now to meteorologist joe on this development as well as what could be an early and busy hurricane development off the southern coast of the united states southeast. as well as talk of snow in denver. all right. what the heck is going on? >> we've had a very quiet tornado season so far. it looks to me like the next five days we had that one pickup activity we were talking about back in april. the next five days we're going to have a lot of activity especially this weekend. i think this weekend is a particularly dangero...

>> hey alex we continue to monitor the weather conditions that were in play when air asia flight 8501 was last heard from moving over the java sea. the weather a big factor across this portion of the world. it's flying through the area that we shorthand call the itcz. we talk about this during the summer months in the u.s., where we would look for tropical storm or hurricane development. but year round, it is a portion of the world infamous for huge thunderstorms. and these bright red colors are indicative of thunderstorm tops approaching 50,000 feet, far above the flight level of about 30,000...