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WOR meteorologist Geoff Maurer interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, we had a short respite after some severe weather.
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  Speaker 1: We're still recovering from that, and now the potential of
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  Speaker 1: another storm, heavy rain expected today, the possibility of thunderstorms.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a deeper dive into all this with Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Maher seven to ten WR Weather Channel meteorologists. Let's start
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  Speaker 1: with Jeff, thanks a lot for doing this. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: when is it all expected to start? And then when
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  Speaker 1: will the worst of it be?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's going to start as we head from the
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  Speaker 2: middle part of this morning of the early part of
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  Speaker 2: the afternoon. All righty, we're seeing a cluster of some
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  Speaker 2: thunderstorms moving out of eastern Pennsylvania in towards West Jersey.
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  Speaker 2: But the heaviest rainfall will be as we head from
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  Speaker 2: this afternoon to the evening hours. That's why we had
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  Speaker 2: the flood wash through late tonight. And there is for
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  Speaker 2: severe weather from mid afternoon, probably about two or three
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  Speaker 2: o'clock until body o'clock this evening. That's when we could
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  Speaker 2: have some damaging wind gus, maybe some hail, possibly you
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  Speaker 2: in an isolated tornado.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Jeff, I ask you a question. Our officials pretty
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  Speaker 3: much igure and if they were doing the prediction market
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  Speaker 3: of where all the low lying areas are going to
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  Speaker 3: get clowbird the way there's going to be because of
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  Speaker 3: this extreme weather flash flooding. Have they done anything in
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  Speaker 3: preparation because this is occurring more and more and more.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems to be for sure. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: we had record rainfall on Saturday obviously, and the ground
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  Speaker 2: was saturated, and now you know we have another round
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  Speaker 2: coming up today and it doesn't take a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of heavier rain, of course, Earn talking about the city
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  Speaker 2: to cause some big flooding issues. And that's going to
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  Speaker 2: be the concern, not as much on your way in
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  Speaker 2: this morning, but for your way back home later this
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  Speaker 2: afternoon of the evening. That's what we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: concerned about. That's we'll have some heavy downpours and we
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  Speaker 2: could light up with us. And we said one to
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  Speaker 2: two inches across the tri state area, maybe three to
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  Speaker 2: four inch tuttels though across parts of the city and
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  Speaker 2: in northern parts of Jersey and the lower Hudson Valley.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the possibility of three to four that's really
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  Speaker 1: scaring me. And how short of a time is that.
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  Speaker 1: And and then we just went through this over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend and people were stuck on the roads and in
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  Speaker 1: deep water people had to pull over. Is it going
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  Speaker 1: to be that bad again today?
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  Speaker 2: It could be. It certainly could be as we head
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  Speaker 2: for the middle part of the afternoon three o'clock or
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  Speaker 2: so into the evening, and you know, now we're going
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  Speaker 2: to deal with that heavy rain threat. But we have
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  Speaker 2: a warm front that will be in the vicinity and
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  Speaker 2: that could cause some severe thutder storms. So we've got
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  Speaker 2: a cold front that's going to be closing in from
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  Speaker 2: tonight and tomorrow morning, So we'll have another round of
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  Speaker 2: rainfall and at the start of Wednesday before improving weather.
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow afternoon we'll start to see some sun breaking through
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll have a beautiful stretch of weather from
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  Speaker 2: Thursday into our weekend with a whole lot of sunshine
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  Speaker 2: and some comfortable temperatures. But we have to get past
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  Speaker 2: the bad weather today and into the evening before we
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  Speaker 2: see improvements later tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Now, obviously this sounds like another lemon to make lemonade
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  Speaker 3: out of it. Might this spur the growth and development
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  Speaker 3: and the artisans creating gondolas for people in each low
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  Speaker 3: lying areas. Venus has learned to deal with this. They're
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  Speaker 3: always underwater. Might this just be a precursor to some
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  Speaker 3: entrepreneurs out there, is, hey, let's start creating gotten dolars
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  Speaker 3: because in a lot of these areas you're going to
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  Speaker 3: be underwater. We've seen people that basements get flooded time
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  Speaker 3: and time again, even sometimes up to the first floor.
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  Speaker 3: They don't clean out to catch basins, whether they're private,
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  Speaker 3: the city doesn't clean out theirs or the county, and
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  Speaker 3: it's just an endless cycle.