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>> a new advisory to keep in mind. this is easily detected by land-based doppler radar. the national hurricane center is giving us hourly updates with the strength and the spee that is the new update minimum central pressure an indication this is still intensifying. the max wind at 120 it does make a category three still intensifying we are reaching this to reach category four intensity. just east do north 50 miles an hour that is a path taken to the big bend region of florida. welcome back to fox weather a special welcome to our viewers on fox news channels. we are fox weather. the reason we are here we are tracking a dangerous storm system moving toward florida's coastline. >> jane: we will bring you the latest as it comes in we are

watching on fox news also any streaming channels also to download the free fox weather after with up to the minute information with critical alerts if you find yourself in florida or the georgia coastline. multiple chapters of idalia are still to come and we will be with you every step of the way. let's get into the latest of the storm. unpacked the new advisory that has come through. take a look at the structure of idalia as it makes its way up into the big bend of mexico. it keeps getting worse a study feature as it starts to flood out.

waves continue to crash over the rails and barriers. a beautiful stretch of restaurants out in the distance. they have already seen one brief power flash and the power has come back on, but likely to go out as we see water rise. for the storm surge with the tropical storm force winds already and impact. >> ian: we have a major update here from the national hurricane center. it is subtle but there you go indication it is still intensifying the air force reserve has been conducting a recon flight watching the storm get much stronger. this is what prompted the upgrade at major hurricane status and they found the pressure dropped 12 millibars maximum sustained wind were is up 10 miles per hour.

>> jane: intensification at category four has never been felt that this part of the florida coastline before. the big bend it takes a lot to have a storm bend up into that area. you can see the rapid intensification here at the trend for the minimum central pressure. look at monday afternoon. you can still see the storm come together to take on those strong characteristics it was apparent moving into the gulf of mexico. now feeding of those warmer waters. nearly perfect environment. >> just going back 24 hours three oh 4:00 a.m. here on the east coast yesterday at 3:00 o'clock a.m. 981. now it has dropped at 944. and that relationship is inverse the lower the number of the pressure the higher the wind is going, eventually or the wind

field is getting larger. it is an indication of intensification. >> jane: this was actually cited by the national hurricane center when trying to get a better picture trying to understand what is happening with the storm. wind gust at 67 miles per hour. this is awfully close to what we are tracking the center of idalia. you can see over the last several hours, we see the steady climb in the wind gust as the storm tracks a bit closer. this looks to be on the western side of the storm which a lot of that convection the powerful rain band has been featured to the east of the storm. it will be interesting to see how the storm has wrapped up. with that deeper convection around the eye has been on the west / southwestern side

wrapping up to the northeast. but the passes through the center from the hurricane hunters are so important getting the data over the next couple of hours. >> ian: this is the vortex message. it is set back more or less in real time from the hurricane hunters in the storm right now. you can see the butterfly pattern they are flying. this is from northeast down to the southwest. something like that. that portion is just a touch weaker, even so detected max wind of 105 miles per hour. any time you fly through you can infer and they do as part of the estimation that they are assuming they are not flying to the most intense part of the storm. add 10 percent and that is why you have the number around 120 miles per hour for maximum sustained wind. look at the inner core and that

has taken shape over the last 12 hours tapping to sea surface temperatures below. >> jane: you can also see the jog to the northeast we are tracking. moving to north with each advisory. you are drawing where we are seeing the eye the last couple of hours. going back to midnight and now at 3:00 o'clock a.m. eastern time, the shift to the northeast that will become really important in the next couple of hours as we are expecting to see landfall in the big bend. where that happens will be the difference who sees the worst of the storm surge and the impacts downstream look at clearw clearwater, tampa bay if we see that jog to the east that can bring some impact there. it will be interesting. cedar key juts off to the northeast of where the storm sits now, you are also

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 - - between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.

it will move on land as a major category four storm. >> jane: we have nicole valdes for us here you seen a big change as the storm surge is coming into the bay. >> not so much the active rainfall but the wind gust. my goodness, they are so strong. we are watching the trees struggle. this storm surge is raging. not just a slow push of all the water from tampa bay moving onto shore. massive waves crash on —- crashing against the surface as it creates essentially a river all along this road and it goes on for miles. we have seen a police officer at either end starting to pick up

several inches making sure nobody is trying to drive through this. this is the evacuation area. there should not be anybody around. not just a couple of inches of water but quickly becoming feet of water all across the roadway. you can see it crashing onto the elevated area we are standing on to keep ourselves safe and to keep ourselves from falling over. just showing how strong these waves are becoming on land. this is a significant threat. if we see anymore rainfall for the remainder of the morning and tell the storm makes landfall, this will be a dangerous situation who think by worktime tomorrow it is over. absolutely not. very good chance this could be

catastrophic if we see this continue. hurricane idalia, is making her mark as you watch the sky light up with lightning and thunder as well here in tampa bay despite the fact we are hours away from landfall. look, several inches. there's a very good chance all this will continue to push further inland. but look at that sidewalk. not even visible completely inundated i know being very familiar with this area of bayshore boulevard just with a couple of rainstorms it is the impact and the strength it is creating such a dire situation why this area is also under evacuation this will be something that can get more serious but not just here in tampa bay but a similar scene

saint pete beach, clearwater beach, treasure island. this is where you watch all of this unfold to get to a significant threat for tampa b bay. >> jane: how quickly do you think this water came in? we saw this push the last couple of hours. but coming down the road easily 2 feet of water by the barrier. >> i think it was just in the matter of the last few hours. we had very intense rain band but now the active heavy rain has pushed past us action the water is coming up, very quickly as i'm standing here. with all that wind it has picked up and grown in strength over the last two hours, it has

created a raging river looking at the waves we are seeing. i did happen very very quickly. no telling how quickly the entire intersection. >> jane: how close are you to structures off of bayshore boulevard? what is the possibility of seeing buildings and homes take on some of this water at that level? >> it is not out of the realm of possibility. sorry. i keep checking a very attentive to where the water is where we are standing. let me give you a big picture. bayshore boulevard. that is the bay. is only a matter of a couple feet so just on the other side

of the major intersection there is a median that divides where the bay is and it starts to go up in elevation and get to the high-rises but really only a matter of a couple of feet it does continue at a very rapid rain with the wind gust it is not out of the realm of possibility a lot of these high-rise buildings we see that they are filled with sandbags. it's hard to believe that the water could get up to that le level. >> ian: can you see that street sign? are you at the bottom of howard? it looks like you are. that is the northbound side. beautiful. you can ride your bike or run. almost 5 miles into downtown. as you were pointing out it is

flood prone. we will flood in some strong thunderstorms but you don't normally see what is right behind you which is those waves breaking over the railings. we just got the read reading, two.9 feet water rising close at high tide for the ni night. you will be there to watch how this plays out. there is a turnabout. they look like they may be official vehicles. the high tide for tomorrow afternoon, which thankfully will not have the strongest push of water, that is supposed to be another one.5 feet higher than the high tide you are seeing right now. so if you consider another foot and a half getting into the median on the other side of

point. it would take a lot it would take a few more feet thankfully to flood those beautiful homes. >> jane: but it does look like a power box there is a very real possibility the water gets up to the power box now we really struggle with keeping the power turned on. >> ian: i would think maybe they even shut off some of those. this the city of tampa spent something like 250 million bucks on stormwater improvement because bayshore was flooding so badly with the powerful storms with the rainy season. this is a different function. we appreciate the rep report. that will be something to put a pin in curious to see was a long duration if the onshore flow

will allow that water out of the bay. fox news nicole valdes. thank you. in between now and the next high tide cycle, early tomorrow afternoon, wondering if we see a repeat of that maybe it is worse. this is new video. that was hillsborough county in tampa this is pinellas county, treasure island. water on the beach. >> jane: this ro road, that is a concern with this water with the push of the wind. looks like a person out there walking in the distance but a couple of inches of water at le least. you have the gas station there in the distance. this is just getting started as we approach high tide.

>> ian: everyone that lives in the tampa bay area has her theory y-letter of they have not taken a direct hit since 1921 with tarpon springs. look at the contrast in cedar key two hours north. the difference between a couple of feet of water rise which was flooding treasure island, and it's right down the road from saint pete beach. now this only a couple of feet that can go up at 16. >> jane: it was one.6 feet at last reading and you can see what it has done here at cedar key they were already continuing it is just a nonstop barrage of waves as high tide comes in slowly but surely we will see the impact of the wind being

parallel to the coast to impact cedar key as that juts out. but this will just get worse as the day goes on. as you were highlighting me be worse post landfall and that is the thing is that the worst flooding could come as it comes from the gulf of mexico. >> ian: so many areas that place talking about the shape of the coastline which is catching some of that water and the depth of the gulf which is not deep at all because of the shallow shelf wat waters. then the magnitude of the wind and the direction of the wind and how long they last. that is the issue. once the wind turns truly onshore, they have not yet, plus the tide cycle, we are at p chai

tide right now is cedar key. we go down from here. but now the competing influences i just mentioned. >> jane: in some way maybe we timed things out perfectly by seeing things starting to die down with high tide. >> ian: at least trying to divide it - - avoid a worst case scenario. >> jane: the storm surge will not change but maybe the worst-case scenario we will see how that unfolds but still very dangerous situation. may be between one and 10000 customers on the lower end. we saw some power that is left. we had one flicker in cedar key that came in about 40 minutes ago but we will continue to

watch how this unfolds. here is the forecast. expecting to see landfall as category four major hurricane sometime early wednesday morning so about 8:00 a.m. or 9:00 a.m. in the morning and it tracks pretty quickly over the florida georgia line now we are talking through the early part of wednesday afternoon today really into the afternoon was still a category one storm but then it turned out to the northeast where we have a friend told boundary but we will continue to see more chapters of this storm unfold as flooding takes place through charleston and south carolina going out into the atlantic ocean. even the inland flooding will be a major concern opening the

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 and it is throwing moisture into the front of the terrain

, that will squeeze out all of the moisture and because of that, it represents a very likely flash flood threat. >> jane: everything flows down into the base of the atlantic. so the flooding concerns are very real. so to stay off the roads, listen to officials and getting to higher ground will be very important. stay with us we will continue to track hurricane idalia category three expected to strengthen as landfall is expected in the coming hours. more coverage just ahead. keep it here.

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category four. this has been so interesting to watch last couple of hours as the waves crash over the rails. flooding water taking over the road and thankfully we still have some power we saw the lights flicker once in the last hour but likely to see conditions worsen as idalia tracks further into the big bend region as we had over the next couple of hours. 120-mile per hour wind as the hurricane hunters flying through the storm that is so critical in the hours to come. >> ian: digging into the latest the hurricane hunters at 2:00 a.m. they realized by the air force reserve from lakeland

and biloxi and noaa it intensified. but what we have seen since then that the pressure is still dropping that is an indication it is still getting stronger. it has also throttled back with the forward speed which will keep this overwater a touch longer. >> jane: in just a couple of miles per hour is a danger. it has been incredible to watch in the last three or four hours how quickly the storm has moved up into the big bend now 100 miles or less. but clearly seeing the turn to the northeast also the sign of the intensifying storm.

>> 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

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will be given the basic needs that they so desperately pray for to survive. >> ian: breaking news on fox news hurricane idalia now category three a major hurricane on its way to become a category four impact is felt all day across a good chunk of the sunshine state the real danger still to come. >> jane: floridians bracing for catastrophic impact as idalia locks in on land right now 5 million in the forecasted millions more facing dangerous threats from the storm. >> ian: this is from cedar key. jetting out with a couple feet

of water. this is one of the areas in a reasonable worst-case scenario likely to occur along some portion of the big bend the nature coast up at 16 feet of storm surge. welcome back into fox news a special welcome to fox news watching from fox news channel tonight. we are here because we are tracking a very dangerous storm already major expected to become category four. >> jane: we have the hurricane hunters flying through the storm. fox weather watch us on any of your streaming devices we are on youtube tv so tune in throughout the morning we have continuous coverage with critical alerts.

>> always on and always free. we are tracking a catastrophic storm like one would for any portion of the gulf of mexico from the big bend not just the end of august it would be a little more normal should it occur in october but going back through 1850 a category four storm so that is the poorly parked cadillac. >> jane: this road has taken on a lot of water and it will get worse over the coming hours. about 60 or 70 miles out from the coast around the big bend and now that will continue.

>> ian: we have a camera there and meteorological equipment. we mounted a camera earlier. there it is. wind speed at 40 miles per hour. pressure 20 minutes back that is 998 you will see the number go down a lot it is displaced but the numbers dropping. we have a live vantage point of the water rising this numbers going up and this number is going down short term. an indication thus 1 —- this major hurricane with the sustained wind is coming throug. >> jane: maybe 5 or 6 hours from seeing landfall and we slowly see the turn to the northeast. that will be critical who sees

the impact. >> ian: looking in cedar key north of that is dixie county and then taylor county the reasonable best guest on —- guess. when we talk about reasonable worst-case scenario from the surge it was up at 16 feet that will occur. not with a whole swath but close to where the center moves on sure for the i wall and immediately displaced off to the right on the advancing side of the system. that's where we get the strongest push. look at those lines in the shape of the coastline. that geometry is important. very shallow water, very warm but that piles up quickly. >> jane: look at the convection building up on the

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 center when easily detected by land-based radar and making landfall the next several hours, the national hurricane center issues the hourly upd

updates. position, speed of the storm and intensity. that's why we get those updates. a great point. look how far extended from the center of circulation you have the powerful band these are still on sure. we showed you bayshore boul boulevard. >> jane: this will bring in more of the storm surge i noticed that it cedar key. all evening long we see that parallel push into cedar key but now as the eye shifts further to the northwest that push into land now into tampa bay we have nicole valdes who is in tampa bay and bayshore boulevard is taken on a bunch of water and

i'm sure things are rapidly changing. >> jane, the water is rising so fast. the strength of the wave as they move to the middle of the road. pushing all of the debris. nearly 3 feet of storm surge coming in from tampa bay completely inundated at least 1 half of bayshore boulevard is not hard to imagine through the overnight hours as we approach high tide and see maybe more rain or wind gust turning that into a recipe for disaster it is susceptible to this type of flooding. bayshore boulevard tends to flood after several inches of rainfall. but this is definitely wild not only is it flooding with the

wind gust in the storm surge creating crashing waves pushing up against bayshore boulevard you can see just how high the water levels are. you will notice how intense and strong and pushing all the way to the roadway that is why this is under mandatory evacuation. there are people here. this is not what we want to see. watch how quickly the water rises. this is why the storm surge is the most concerning threat for tampa bay, not just here on bayshore but in and around the tampa bay area. talk about tampa general

hospital in a similar situation as the water starts to ri rise, threatens the capability of the hospital to keep patients safe and healthy so much goes into that process as we watch the strength of these waves we could see some band later on but it is very telling with the storm surge watching the situation play out at clearwater beach or saint pete beach this is why we try to stay above it you don't know how deep it is on the ground on the road level and just how strong the waves are. coming in hot you can see how they pushed over into the me median. i would be shocked if we see that continue further down into the road we already notice the businesses and homes they are

boarded up, sandbags, even they recognize that threat is very real and possible at this point. >> jane: not only the waves with the barrier but we track the band going into tampa bay rain is still potentially coming through talk about the concern with the community the rain on top of the storm surge. >> that is the case. there is a lot of conversation is the storm surge threat even more of a danger at that point if we already see what has happened at low tide people are very concerned several hours from now at 6 or 7 or 8:00 o'clock a.m. now we talk about landfall.

this is still very evident that tampa bay and saint pete beach will still see a very intense impact despite the fact we will not necessarily see landfall hit the tampa bay area. >> ian: that is fascinating to see moving to the next 12 hours. obviously there's never a good time to have a major hurricane off to the west but when you consider it is a blue moon tonight what is expected to be later in the absence of this storm likely the highest if not 1 of the highest high tides the 2023. now you have the onshore push so i'm curious to see the water behind you is allowed to travel or does that onshore flow with a

high tide cycle this afternoon is expected to be higher than it is right now. those who know tampa right behind nicole, bayshore is horribly flood prone. it does flood but you normally don't see breaking waves over the railing. that is an indicator of serious water rise. nicole valdes, thank you very much. >> jane: hurricane idalia category 3 we are waiting for updates from national hurricane center with the latest details expecting to intensify category 4 at landfall. stay right here.

>> ian: welcome back to fox news and fox weather special coverage as we continue to track major hurricane idalia in the gulf of mexico. 5 hours out for making landfall off of florida's nature coast. >> jane: we have been with you all night long but we went to get in with the fox news team on the ground joining us from st. petersburg the rain band comes in drops the visibility the storm surge and what are conditions like for you? it looks like we are having some audio issues the window 1 —- the wind is taking too much noise away. >> ian: we don't have his audio but he is on saint pete

beach the surf behind him is kicked up we saw what that did with nicole valdes he is in pinellas county but the water rise even hillsboro bay is with similar conditions but we are 3 days out? and we saw from clearwater beach earlier that has been erased with the water rise. >> jane: it was 2.9 but also old port tampa although minimal it really brings in that southwest push. also a touch more.

>> ian: peak high tide to be clear the numbers you're looking at our over a 30 year average what would be considered the normal high tide it is 30 years of average the sea levels have come up, slightly above 0 throw in the blue moon the afternoon high tide cycle is to be outside of our major hurricane to the gulf of mexico already 1 of the highest tides and factor in the surge from idalia and that's where the problem comes in. tampa is a high tide then a smaller high tide as we move through. >> jane: a great point but that another high tide going into the afternoon. at that point the timing that we expecting to see idalia landfall

at 1.4 but that consistent push of wind we already see that 3-foot rise if we continue to see the high tide pulled in does that allow them? >> there's not a lot to compare them to not just with the season at all. this portion of coastline from the eastern part of the big bend down to the mouth the tampa bay since 1851 never category 4 making a landfall that period of record expecting it to reach category 4 intensity so to your

point it is not as high necessarily but perpendicular to the mouth of tampa bay and then you go to the high tide cycle that is expected to be 1 1.5 feet higher. >> jane: with the direction of the wind in some ways with that onshore push look at the circulation with the intense hurricane. so wind gusting at 41 miles per hour. that is what is saving us from the peak surge. when it does it happens quickly from that easterly push to that shift out of the south or southwest. for those communities that are susceptible to the storm surge.

>> ian: a good point this is not even remotely on sure yet so that is not pushing the water into the coastline. the problem is once this makes landfall, you get a straight perpendicular punch to the coastline. >> jane: and the seabreeze kicks up and now you can feel the shift that is what will happen except this time when it is normally welcome, this will come in with a dangerous life-threatening component with a wall of water that will come with it. and in some cases some models between 5 or 10 miles. >> ian: now we see the outer fringes approaching the

coastline. national hurricane center calls the landfall where they estimate the geometric center of the center of circulation to cross the coastline. we have a long way to go until official landfall. >> you think that is awfully close to land a decent clip at 15 miles per hour but i would not be surprised at 4:00 o'clock when we get the next update to see the shift in that direction. we have been tracking the eye and that push is happening in that turn to the northeast the hurricane hunters flying through the center of circulation making 3 passes entering into the fourth pass now that update

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

idalia. >> jane: also with a convection thunderstorms around the eye of the circulation that is a clear indicator it is continuing to strengthen gainesville is highlighted on the board. coming at the top of the hour we will be live gainesville is important position for seeing some of these outer rain bands. we want to take you through some of the storm surge. clearwater beach 3.1 feet matches that from old port tampa, st. petersburg. now the wind is coming up, out of the south eventually we will turn to the southwest and that puts us in the danger spot that pushes into tampa bay right into the coastline of st. petersburg

then you have the barrier islands with mandatory evacuation orders that have been put into place heating the warnings but the storm surge threat expecting to see 6 feet with a worst-case scenario. we are halfway there with a high tide cycle we are expecting to see low tide emerge in the coming hours, as that comes in we have the push so will that allow the low tide to recede to keep that standing water at a consistent pace. venice, fort myers beach a devastating hit. ahead of schedule from where you are seeing that direct onshore push. hurricane idalia makes landfall

this morning but continues through southeastern georgia and coastal carolinas through the day into tomorrow. flooding rain and tropical force wind. >> ian: we are minutes away from the 4:00 a.m. update thinking this is a stronger hurricane it's already category 3 perhaps even category 4 as soon as we get that update we will bring it to you. it is definitely closer to the right edge of the forecast so each little wobble from here this will dictate who sees the worst-case scenario. >> jane: looking at the cycle of the eye with the potential

landfall. so maybe that convection is filling in, it will be interesting to see. i think some of this is that deep convection around the eye what we are seeing are those spots into the center. >> ian: we have been showing you that camera all night of cedar key this is citrus cou county, that little dot right there you can see how exposed that is. and as you pointed out we don't even have onshore wind yet so the surge really isn't even generated. going up into taylor county these are to be the areas most exposed to the landfall either very close to the center of circulation or immediately off to the right are expecting the

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>> hurricane idalia are now a category 3 storm. landfall is just hours away and we're moments away from the 4 a.m. update. potential looking at category 4 storm. >> floridians are bracing for potentially catastrophic impacts, life-threatening surge. five million are in the forecast cone, millions facing dangerous threats from the storm. >> that is livct