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With shallow water. >> you get this big shelf that extends out a couple of hundred of miles up into the gulf of mexico. >> if you had to draw something that you thought would catch water, you'd probably draw something like the shape of this portion of the size of florida. >> jane: and speaking of that, when you talk about catching the water, too, let --. >> jane: the way in which it can extend into florida, it's also striking, potentially fit hits just right. >> you take a look just north of cedar key and it looks like you've got a bit of a river basin that kind of leads out into open waters. ...

>> ian: this is infrared satellite you can see the eye that opened up as an indication the inner core was fully formed at this point and all green lights for intensification. it is two separate points, three hours apart. there is some component off to the east. moving off to the northeast, wobbling back and forth but also a burst of convection. very powerful storms on the west side perhaps that pulls it back just to touch. it is dixie county then into taylor county. thank you for watching with us

Cat 4 status before it makes landfall. >> jane: you can see the deeper convection bubbling up on the southwestern side of the eye. you know, as that continues to wrap around, we consider the dirty side of the storm up across the northeast. that's going to help bring in the tightening of that eye circulation, the intensification happening especially as that pinhole potentially gets a little bit smaller but you can see already the outer rain bands making their way on shore. the 60 mile-per-hour gusts as you mentioned there in sarasota. this is a classic textbook form of what you would consider a...

Around but it's directly off the water. >> where does it go? it pushes it inland. >> ian: take care of that, that thing is brand new. >> just wanted to let you know, the water rise there is now over three feet, 3.2 so we're talking about that range, four to six feet or up to about four feet of surge possible and you're halfway there and as you just pointed out to us, we don't even have that full push for the per opinion dick you'd lur direction of the coastline -- per opinion -- perpendicular area of the coastline. >> it's going to come all at once and now we kind of get the glancing blow but ...

Surface. >> what it's showing us is even way high up, these are very tall and very powerful thunderstorms in that inner core. >> jane: yeah, especially -- we talked about this whole time, we're track can severe weather and as that radar being scanned, the farther you are from the beam, the higher the scan. >> so we're getting a good sample of perhaps the mid-tier of what that storm looks like and that's why we have the air force hurricane hunters flying into the storm and they're about to make that second approach into the center of circulation and this is going to be another important critica...