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Down to when the sons splashes into the ocean. so the ocean temperatures, ahead of irma, are very, very warm. we're talking water temperatures of 87, 88 degrees fahrenheit. and that just is fuel for the fire. the waters through the bahamas, heading towards miami, are about the warmest they've been all year. >> and you talked tanlt size ee of the eye. yesterday, people were talking about how perfect the eyewall was. i'm wondering how it looks today. >> the eye continues to have that perfect, what we call stadium effect to it. where it looks like you're inside a circular football stadium. right ...

A look at irma, we're sad to report there's a lot of are you able. and because of the damage, the power outages the inibility to transbit. it's taken lives and broken records it's the eye of this is so distinct at 25 miles across, forecasters are calling it the stadium effect as it takes on the appearance of the bowl of a football stadium that's a question mark where it winds up. we know: torm stayed offshore, but with no interaction with land, with

Heading towards miami are about the warmest they have been all year. >> and you talked about the size of the eye, if you could just repeat how big that eye it. and i know yesterday people were talking about how sort of perfect the eye wall was. i am wondering how it looks today today. >> the eye continues to have that perfect, what we call stadium effect to it. where it looks like you're inside a circular football stadium. right now the eye is approximately 15 miles across. it is actually getting smaller. it's going through another one of those what we call eye wall replacement cycles where th...

And so penetrating the wall was, like i said, severe turbulence and a lot of rain, and it was a small eye wall, so we had to work really quickly to drop the weather instruments. usually in a storm you have an eye that's 30 nautical miles so you have more time to work on dropping your weather instrum t instruments. in this case, everything happened so quickly with a small eye like that. there's a lot going on, and we were just having to work as a crew together and deal with the task at hand and back each other up all the way. it was a pretty intense ride, but overall it worked out and we got so...

So i was expecting this going in to patricia, but this was definitely the most severe storm that i've flown to date, as far as turbulence. >> and you were flying, i know, low, in order to get your instruments, in order to get all the data. what could you see when you looked at the surface of the ocean. >> normally when you break out in the eye, you would have what we call a stadium effect. so you'd see the whole eye wall from inside the eye, which is a really good picture, and you can look straight up, sometimes, see clear skies, but we didn't have any of that. we could just see lightning flas...