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The gulf of mexico is one of the warmest bodies of water anywhere in the earth, which is why we get hurricanes here and it's a constant moisture source. an area of low pressure wants to be filled in with ayer and that circulate counterclockwise and continues to pull the moisture off of the gold. take a look at this batch of moisture. this is cloud cover, the darker tops, the stronger the storms. take a look at this. so much moisture is still going to continue to be pulled up here because the storm continues to not move them out will be the case for the next 24 to 48 hours before it maybe makes...

It doesn't have moisture source anymore. i will tell you i think we see this weaken less in a sense because it is not going to get very far off of the land. or off of the water. and so it's going to continue to be able to pull some of this gulf moisture in the next couple of days. that's why we expect to see the rainfall totals so high. a lot of the models we are looking at. how much water is in the at no, sir fear. we are seeing records with this. numbers we haven't seen before as far as how much water is in the atmosphere. all that water up is going to go down and fall. came on shore. hurric...

So this could be catastrophic. watch what happens to the computer models. they meander everywhere. that says stalling and the last thing you want with a major hurricane is to stall. a few of them come back offshore, regenerate its strength and take it back in for a second land fall. if it's close enough to continue to feed on that moisture source, it's going to continue to be strong. so besides the deadly winds and the storm surge, the heavy rain is the big fear. as this system stalls, everything in purple from west to san antonio up to austin, that's 10, 20 inches of rain fall. other models d...

About the rains, and some of the skiers will be happy about the snow. >> absolutely. it's about time. we're getting significant snow coming in on the order of several feet. here's the perspective across the eastern pacific ocean. across the northwestern u.s., go back about 5,000 miles. back towards western pacific on to the areas of the philippines. that's where the moisture source is coming in. you can easily pick out the moisture as it stretches back out towards the west. the moisture is certainly there. the next couple days we get additional rainfall. some areas could see well over a foot o...

Let's get to meteorologist pedram javaheri. good morning. the storm door is open in the northwest. the moisture source is the pineapple express. you know there is tropical moisture. the indication puts it 4 to 6 inches of rainfall across western washington. the areas indicated in pink is in excess of 1 foot of rainfall. in portland, a calendar day record with 2.67 inches. that is 1,400% of what is normal. that is why the flooding is significant. you go up the i-5 corridor in seattle, it was the gloomiest day on record. the solar radiation reaching the surface was so low because of the cloud ...