latest. the pressure is going down, anderson. and that s bad. the lower the pressure, the higher the wind speed. now, there s hurricane hunter aircraft in there right now. it did not find any increased wind speed yet. so sometimes the pressure goes down and then the winds build. but there s the eye right there from the miami radar site. so it s not all that far away. we ve had outer bands coming onshore in florida for most of the day. there s another outer band offshore right now if you re standing on the beach you may be able to see the lightning in the distance. i hope you re not on the beach at this point, though, because the waves are getting much larger. you get that 115-mile-per-hour wind out there, the waves are being generated and there s going to be a lot of rip currents going out into the ocean in the next couple of days all the way up into cape hatteras, even into ocean city, maryland. so let s break it down for you right now. it s 120-mile-per-hour storm. tomorr
aircraft in there right now. it did not find any increased wind speed yet. so sometimes the pressure goes down and then the winds build. but there s the eye right there from the miami radar site. so it s not all that far away. we ve had outer bands coming onshore in florida for most of the day. there s another outer band offshore right now if you re standing on the beach you may be able to see the lightning in the distance. i hope you re not on the beach at this point, though, because the waves are getting much larger. you get that 115-mile-per-hour wind out there, the waves are being generated and there s going to be a lot of rip currents going out into the ocean in the next couple of days all the way up into cape hatteras, even into ocean city, maryland. so let s break it down for you right now. it s 120-mile-per-hour storm. tomorrow afternoon south of the cape. by tomorrow about saturday 2:00 you get to the category 2, 110-mile-per-hour storm somewhere in north carolina. n
narangaset. will make a run at nantucket, cape cod. that will be tomorrow night at this time. right now, it s going to do a glancing blow at north carolina. what does glancing really mean? it means that we re going to pile up water along these outer banks and in many spots push that water over the top of those islands. and that could cut the islands in half. happens all the time. it also means they ll probably be water completely over all of those outer banks. that s why they evacuated those islands. that s why they did it yesterday, even though some people got in traffic jams today. larry. and it s only september 2nd. and september could be the worst. chad myer, always atop the scene. chad myers, our weather expert. as kids across the united states head to school, many will be carrying a new backpack loaded with school supplies or wearing new cambodia, the cost of even basic supplies often keeps children from attending class. this week s cnn s hero is a
but not getting smaller, larry. this is florida. the top of my screen is virginia. so almost all of i-95 south of virginia would be filled up by the size of this hurricane, category 2, so it s 110 miles per hour. it was bigger than that yesterday. it s gone down a little bit. but still, that s still a dangerous storm. hurricane hunter aircraft still flying through the storm right now. it will continue to turn to the right. it will make a run at narangaset. will make a run at nantucket, cape cod. that will be tomorrow night at this time. right now, it s going to do a glancing blow at north carolina. what does glancing really mean? it means that we re going to pile up water along these outer banks and in many spots push that water over the top of those islands. and that could cut the islands in half. happens all the time. it also means they ll probably be water completely over all of those outer banks. that s why they evacuated those islands. that s why they did it yesterday, even though