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Almost the same size as katrina. with all the damage katrina did, it came on shore as a category three, which is what florence is now as well. because it has been so strong for so long, earlier today there was a wave height measured of 8t quadrant, the front right quadrant of the storm. all of that wave action is moving towards the short and tomorrow it's going to slow down and it's forward progression. here's the ocean temperature. it's got to go still over the gulf stream, that's the warmest water is, plenty of fuel there to at least maintain the category three strength right now the forecas...

Is critical to forecasting the path of the storm. >> i could talk to you for hours about this. just fascinating in terms of scientific perspective. appreciate your time. stay safe up there. >> well, yeah, i just do want to emphasize to your audience. don't pay too much attention to whether it's a category 1 or category 2 storm. this storm is generating a very large wind field. the wave height at buoys south of new orleans are very, very high. and all that energy is going to hit the coast and so you're looking at storm surges of up to nine feet in mobile bay. and along the mississippi and alaba...

Increases by 20% or 30% more. so a lot of people who think they're high up and they're escaping a lot of things, they're actually still in a lot of danger because there's less friction the higher you go. when you're down around the ground, a lot more friction. so the higher you go, the higher those winds are expected. there's just a lot of dynamics here. >> can i ask you another question is this. >> sure. >> so you mentioned the storm surge. on top of that, karen, don't you have waves too, wave height on top of that 20 to 25 possibly feet waves? >> yes, we do. for the tides down here, we haven...

And the other 2/3 have probably cleared out. staying may not be the worst thing if you have a particularly sturdy house and if you're not going to be serious storm surge. you can't give generic advice to people saying it might be okay to stay when you know for many of them it would not be. >> that also depends on where you are and no one really knows exactly. we know it's going to hit florida but exactly where it's going to hit and you have to look at a storm surge on top of that, mayor and the wave height -- >> that's exactly right. when you're against the coast, you have to assume -- you hav...

About it tracking a few miles this way or a few dozen miles that way, are those not going to make a material difference for this giant a storm. question one, how good are the predictions of where it's going. question two, is the sheer size of this storm so overwhelming that the subtle differences in the tracks don't matter. two more questions. third, i know there are people who don't understand this part but i do not. i don't get the relationship between sea level and wave height and storm surge and tide and what the national hurricane center is now describing as water height above ground in i...