Laura Tobin on ITV (08/10/2024)
Weather forecast for the UK
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00:00The hurricane that is about to hit Florida.
00:04That's a monster.
00:05We saw your equivalent on US television move to tears
00:11because it's so frightening.
00:13Yeah, John Morales.
00:14So he actually lives in Tampa Bay,
00:17and the hurricane is set to make landfall in Tampa Bay.
00:19And he is moved to tears, I think,
00:22by how devastating this storm is set to be.
00:25Saying where the storm is planning to go,
00:27where it's tracking, when it makes landfall at the moment,
00:29it's set to be the worst hurricane to make landfall
00:31there in over 100 years.
00:33And back then, Tampa Bay had 100,000 people.
00:36They now have 3 million people living there.
00:39And this went from a tropical storm
00:40to a cap 5, the highest you can get, in 48 hours.
00:44The quickest a hurricane has ever
00:46intensified to this change.
00:47It's down to emissions in the atmosphere.
00:49And these huge storms are fueled by these warm waters.
00:52And that's what it makes it's going to make it so devastating.
00:54And of course, they're still tidying up
00:56from Helene last week.
00:57So there's massive dumper trucks taking debris away,
01:00because that debris can fly through the air
01:02and that can then kill people.
01:04So there is so much going on there.
01:06But yeah, it's set to be huge.
01:08And any tale of it that we will experience in the aftermath?
01:12So it tracks its way through Florida Wednesday, Thursday,
01:15heads into the middle of the Atlantic by the weekend.
01:18And then the jet stream will sweep it up.
01:19And it means that that low pressure will then
01:21come across the Atlantic, headed towards our shores probably
01:24the middle of next week.
01:25OK.
01:25And the weather for today?
01:27Sunshine and showers.
01:30So as we were saying, that hurricane is huge.
01:33We can see on the satellite image,
01:34this is the eye that the storm chasers have been flying
01:36through to get the data.
01:38It was 180 miles an hour at its peak.
01:40We've only had eight hurricanes, making
01:42that huge sustained wind speed of 185 miles an hour.
01:46And it's set to bring a storm surge of 15 feet
01:49as it heads its way towards this West Florida coast Wednesday
01:53into Thursday, and then tracking into the Atlantic.
01:55So we'll keep our eyes on that.
01:57We were talking yesterday about another hurricane, Hurricane
02:00Kirk.
02:00That is now staying well to the south of our shores,
02:03heading into France tomorrow.
02:04For us, for the next few days, we
02:06continue with sunshine and showers.
02:08Now, this is the latest radar image.
02:10We've got a band of rain through northern areas of England.
02:12This transfers northwards as we head through the day.
02:15And within this, we have embedded instability.
02:17So the chance of some thunderstorms breaking out.
02:19For the rest of England and Wales, sunshine and showers.
02:22Again, heavy with hail and thunder.
02:24Showers more frequent than yesterday, but yet again,
02:27the sunshine feeling very pleasant.
02:29Highs of 19 degrees.