Hurricane Ian forecast called “near worst-case scenario” for Tampa area

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Hurricane Ian has strengthened to a Category 2 storm as it barrels toward Florida with a meteorologist at the National Weather Service saying it could be “something we haven’t seen in our lifetime.” The current forecast track has Ian heading toward the Tampa Bay region and officials are saying the area could see 10 to 15 inches of rain. CNN Meteorologist Tom Sater joins AC360 to give the latest on the storm’s track and how dangerous the storm surge could be. Plus, a NASA spacecraft has successfully slammed into an asteroid called Dimorphos in hopes of changing the asteroid’s speed and path in space, a first test of a way of literally saving planet earth from extinction. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson tells AC360 what NASA will do to determine if they successfully changed the asteroid’s direction. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Just leave now.
0:03.9	A warning from the mayor of Tampa, Florida as Hurricane E and grows stronger and moves
0:08.1	closer to bringing with the head of the National Hurricane Center calls a near worst-case scenario
0:13.2	for that city.
0:14.6	John Burman here in Ferranda, and there you see it.
0:17.7	A major storm heading for the Tampa area that could deliver the first direct hit there
0:22.2	in a century, then not move for nearly two full days.
0:28.1	Many people in waterfront areas have been ordered to leave.
0:30.5	The local sheriff is warning anyone to defy the order and stays.
0:34.2	You are on your own.
0:35.9	We just received a new advisory from the National Hurricane Center.
0:38.7	See, and it's Tom Seder is in the weather center with the very latest, the new advisory.
0:43.7	What does it say, Tom?
0:44.7	Well, John, we don't have much in the way of changes except the pressure is dropping.
0:49.5	And it usually takes a while, and that pressure drops, the storm gets stronger.
0:53.6	So what we're going to notice here is even though the winds have not changed, still 100
0:57.1	hour-hour sustained winds, they will start to increase now greatly.
1:00.9	When that pressure drops, it equivilates to a stronger wind pattern.
1:05.4	In fact, these are just heat engines.
1:07.2	They feed on that warm water.
1:09.1	That warm water then, as it rises up, changes the kinetic energy and goes to wind.
1:12.8	Now we're about 130 miles from a landfall in Cuba.
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