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Day. between five and 8 inches of rain going through georgia and south carolina. my first job out of college i forecasted there doesn't take a lot with the flooding in low-lying areas in downtown a guest stuff. and columbia you have the beautiful lakes. they will take on a lot of rain. >> ian: this is a big point to make we have not talked as much about this with the next phase of idalia. we have these extreme threats on the immediate coastline in florida, but this is once again , we talked about the position of this would make more sense if it was october. you have a powerful front moving in ...

West side that is important for the strengthening clearly showing signs of strengthening. thunderstorms that really start to happen. 66 strikes around the center that's the assigned beginning of category 4. >> ian: we knew this would be all gas until landfall when it is cut off from the energy source which is the very warm gulf waters below it. that structure has been there. that is that burst of convection we notice that on the west side of the i wall that north and south come as a gets closer to the land-based radar that's what we are getting the hourly updates from the national hurricane ce...

It's just piling off. >> this is the way it looks on the streets, all the way up. >> it just looks like a root beer float. >> it's the foam, and it goes all the way up the bend and the road up there and it's just filling in so i think we actually are going ooh get some higher ground now and we're going to jet on out of here after this. >> ian: bob we just graphed up the water -- st. pete 2.4 and even in the bay, old port tampa over on the old tampa bay side that's over two feet and eastern faces shores even the interior face of pinellas water -- >> starting to come right up and it's out of the...

Could come in the next 4 or 5 minutes. >> ian: the eastern side of the circulation where the hurricane hunters are sampling the eastern side of the drywall wind at 140 miles per hour. this is getting upgraded not coming in just yet this is that horseshoe beach in the general vicinity closer to cedar key. the point we're making it is not representative of what's going on at the surface but the national hurricane center may not 10 percent off of that that brings down 125 even that is higher from the latest estimate at 120 the pressure dropping in the wind would follow a stronger

Highlighting the difference between 76 n-95 miles. that is more time overwater before it makes land. >> ian: at least one hour still overwater and dictates who sees this part of the storm and immediately to the advancing side of the storm that is where we could reasonably see up to 16 feet of surge even in that three-hour span the i was on both sides of that line so just an indication that is how these tropical systems move. it looks like that. it is on a path. if it stays on that. okay, five or six hours estimating that it is how much time it has overwater between 8:00 a.m. and nine day - - b...