here is the man of the hour brian norcross. glad to have you with fox weather doing wonderful work. remember brian from hurricane andrew. >> ainsley: 31 years ago. >> steve: you were probably america's premiere authority when it comes to hurricanes, you have lived in florida so long. our family was watching all night long at the command center. you're a scientist and were looking at computersings and watches stuff. how does this storm as it preceded in the hours and thank you for getting up early, how has it progresed according to the forecast? any deviation that surprised you or right on the nose? >> the surprise was yesterday, strength of the outer band. you have not seen much wind, they are in between bands, somebody is getting the bands that are still going on and it is going to continue. another thing is that it is transitioning to a different kind of storm. left side we normally talk about the right side being bad side of the storm, the dirty 1d. that side is pushing the water in and continuing to happen, but to a lesser degree. the tide is coming up. i think the tide we're se

hurricane idalia is different from other storms, brian norcross with more on why. >> we don't have anys like this in the record books in august. if a storm comes from south and veer to the north, it will happen late september or october, few we have had. in this particular part of the big bend, the eastern part of the big bend, last hurricane that was really strong, strong hurricane was back in 1896, cedar keys hurricane, it was called and produced high storm surge about the same intensity of this storm. this is very unusual. >> janice: we had a great conversation on my podcast, that will air on sunday, so grateful for your time and knowledge about hurricanes. compare this one to ian last year. >> number of i think thises are different, it wasn't as strong as ian and ian in terms of intensification and weakening, similar. ian weakened just before coming ashore. when we get final analysis, we will find the right side, hurricane is moving to the right that is the part with strongest wind ush approximating onshore from the gulf to land, storm surge. that in this one, was significantly wea