James Kaufman reports on a catastrophic weather outlook, primarily focusing on Hurricane Erin. The storm is fluctuating between Category 3 and 5, with sustained winds up to 150 mph. It is projected to devastate the U.S. East Coast from South Carolina up to Boston, bringing unprecedented wave heights of up to 50 feet and severe storm surges from Tuesday through Saturday.
James Kaufman, World News Report Today.
Breaking news.
We have airing scooting up north of the Bahamas,
headed towards the East Coast.
All signs point to a hard right turn.
Currently, we have 125 mph sustained winds.
Those have been up and above 150 mph sustained winds
over the last several hours.
We're at a Cat 3, Cat 4, moving in and out of a Cat 4 and 5.
We also have a small disturbance.
I'll say in front of that because I expect this to take the same route.
And this is headed out towards the UK and Ireland.
Behind that, we have another tropical disturbance with a 40% chance
of becoming a cyclone here within the next few days.
And it looks like it's headed on a slightly more southern path.
Not good news.
And FYI for all the smart kids,
you'll still see that Doppler's hitting hard out of Columbia.
There's going to be several more tropical
waves formed here south of Jamaica.
It's quite evident they're
also dropping silver iodide in a special pattern.
to get this party started
and i mean the rotation going right with that said
aaron has been a cat five hurricane already today down
to a cat three expected to strengthen
overnight heading into warmer waters
for the time being we'll run this through
and this is into tomorrow you can see it's hugging
the northern part of the bahamas pretty hard
And that's when it strengthens quite a bit,
up to 140, 150 miles per hour.
When it was one of our strongest hurricanes ever recorded,
the last fly-through, it might have been the strongest.
Look at the strength of this thing.
Say bye if this goes inland.
All right, over to Wave Heights.
Everyone's been worried about storm surge.
What do we have? We have some incredible
wave heights within this storm.
It's like it's punching a hole in the north of the Bahamas.
And we will stop this every once in a while,
try to get a measurement here.
This is over 40 feet. Definitely saw 40, 43 feet.
43 feet right there on, well,
in the center of this storm.
Let's continue.
As it gets closer to the East Coast, the waters warm up quite a bit.
All right, let's try to stick up and keep up with it.
We're seeing tremendous waves here,
even if you're looking at an 11-foot wave here.
We're talking about everything on the beach being destroyed.
We're talking about South Carolina,
North Carolina, Virginia, et cetera,
going up perhaps into New York, Long Island even.
Now, this is only going to be Tuesday midday.
Tuesday midday.
We'll keep that going here,
and we're going to stop it here.
As this pushes against the coast here,
we've got some really, really strong, strong waves here.
16 feet here, 23 feet here,
38 feet here, 42 feet here.
Like nothing I've ever, 50 feet here near
the eye wall, 50 feet, 50 feet waves, that
would be unheard of.
This is supposed to develop into a, well, Cat 5 again.
Let's hope that does not happen.
You know, they're having it come up on land more
so each moment.
You can see it hitting Long Island, Boston,
et cetera, and now it's really walloping.
Really walloping this area here.
We're looking at 20-foot waves going
into Hong Island here.
Let's see what we have here.
It looks like 49 to 50-foot waves
in the central eye of this hurricane.
This is going to be like no other hurricane that we've ever seen.
I believe it's already been named
the strongest hurricane that we've ever seen.
I'm going to run this through,
this is going to be Thursday, so this is going to start,
exactly when this is going to start,
I would say Tuesday morning, Tuesday morning, it's
going to last through Wednesday, into Thursday,
into Friday, just tearing up all of the East
Coast, and into Saturday,
which is really going to take it, hopefully, out to sea by
that time, hopefully out to sea by that time.
So we have a heck, a heck of a journey in front of us here.
It's going to be Thursday around midday.
We still have right under 50-foot sustained waves
at 13 seconds.
You know what?
It's almost surfable.
If it was at 22 seconds, I'd be in, right?
I'd probably drown.
I'm a lifeguard or was a lifeguard trained.
I've surfed most of the world.
And, of course, I really would not paddle out into a 50-foot wave.
That would be the end of me.
When they say 10-foot wave,
it's something like you've never, ever seen before.
So when you're looking at 50-foot waves,
these are something very special here.
So you can see, not only this,
we have another one coming in right after it.
And it looks like it's going to go a little bit further south.
And maybe make impact, maybe make impact with the U.S.
So, we'll take a look at that.
All right, right behind Hurricane Erin here.
Now, Cat 3 was a 5, back up to a 5 soon.
We have another disturbance that almost has,
well, a 100% chance of formation, in my opinion.
It's going to be coming in right after Erin.
And it looks like it's on a...
A little bit more southern trajectory, which is terrible news.
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