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Georgia and hit as a category 3. walk us through how this went from essentially a tiny little low pressure system near the yucatan to what we are experiencing. >> sure. so this time of year, it is not uncommon at all to see these disturbances developing in the caribbean and they get drawn north towards the gulf of mexico where the water is very warm. and the question with this storm was never would it become a hurricane but how strong would it get, would it be able to tap into all of that warm water in the gulf of mexico. there were some impediments, some wind shear, which tends to disrupt thu...

The pattern. and then ends up over in the caribbean. 75-miles-an-hour maximum sustained could peek -- pick up steam it's not a tomorrow problem but it's coming. scott williams is at fox 29 in philly. talking bat small storm in size. >> that's certainly right. good afternoon, shep. we're talking about hurricane danny. it's so small i had to circle it. well into the open waters of the atlantic, a thousand miles away from the windward eye islands would you need sever hundred of this to equal hurricane sandy, but looking more symmetrical. you can see the eye and some thunderstorm development aroun...

Dry season, but heavy rains and a haboob. you know what happens just like in the southwestern u.s., you get thunderstorms that form and then the outflow boundaries or gust fronts that come out of it can pick up the sand as well. look at this in tehran. case in point there you see, that's not a storm cloud. that is sand getting kicked up by the thunderstorm development that we had. a little further to the north here with torrential downpours. upwards of 166 millimeters of rainfall. 80 kilometer per hour winds, and we continue with a little more activity here. in fact that, in the next 24 to 48 ...

Think is going to make out for the next few days. >> shallower water, the currents are stronger in these shallower bat waters and we know murky to say the at least. mud-like clay in this portion of the java sea. there's a debris field location 100 to 200 kill meters from the last point of the aircraft. satellite loop in motion here for you. tremendous thunderstorm development on this infrared satellite imagery that we see north of the java sea. we do have some moderate storms taking place and low clouds also. so the weather is better across this region. but still far from ideal. so we take you...

This region is susceptible to thunderstorm development. it's all because of the dynamics that occur across this region. the northeast monsoon encountering land mass and various other aspects creating the thunderstorm activity. remember, natalie, that turbulence can form from all kinds of factors, that being wind, thunderstorms, flying directly through a jet stream or flying very close to a mountainous region. and this area is indeed very, very mountainous. so we've had all those factors in place. so weather is certainly a formidable threat across this region. >> yes, it is now as well. all rig...