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>> there is the eye and the swirling cloud canopy. it's all upside down, isn't it? >> it looks that way, yes. >> just a camera angle, friends, and it's all relative. good morning, again, tony. we are looking at -- that was igor, and i forget what the iss flies at. it is a low-flying orbit, and it cruising around the earth pretty rapidly. this shot from the geostationary sites up there at 22,000 feet or so. look how wide that eye is. it's loik 35, maybe even 40 miles wide. we have hurricane hunter aircraft en route, almost reached the eye wall. that's turbulence and they have a rough ride there. speaking of planes, they have pulled out the gamut of planes
thought, tomorrow afternoon and evening is when you will get hit. there are hurricane warnings posted for this area but far south of texas. we don't anticipate bad weather for texas. this forecast track for igor hasn't changed. the guide dan this entire hurricane season is phenomenal. they are getting so good at it. if i lived in bermuda, i would be getting nervous and making preparations for the impact of potentially a major storm hitting them during the day on sunday. we will send reynolds down there to check it out. rain across parts of the dakotas and kansas. we showed you the hail video, strong at this time of year, and winding itself up across the great lakes. this could create severe weather in spots across the ohio river valley and crank up the winds across the northeast.
centered right here give or take and this is the general direction it's going in. good news for folks who live in texas, but not those who live in northern mexico. the updated forecast brings it to category 2 strength whether it makes landfall late tomorrow or early saturday. that means that we've got problems for the folks who live down there. >> what are we looking at here? >> a view from space here. >> oh. >> get that box out of the way. i can't see the eye. you know, love these astronauts but not -- >> production values. >> they're not going to make it as professional photographers. here's a shot from higher up, showing all three. julia is a category 2 storm, kind of losing its punch but igor continues to impress. still a cass gore 4 storm and
myers. >> karl, hurricane karl. >> might intensify gens? >> to a category 2. this was off the coast of yucatan for like an hour and it was a hurricane again. never lost that much intensity over the yucatan. kind of wet, so when it rained, it was still hot. when that happened, comes across flat land, we think about hurricanes getting dead, but they didn't. didn't die. went down to a tropical storm, but then category 1, then 2 by the time it makes landfall on friday then ends up close to mexico city and that could be a problem. that big ball at 8,000 feet in the sky, that could be a problem. you can you could get significant flooting there. we will watch that. look at this. still, igor, the amount of energy that this thing has now expended is amazing.