to form in january and the fourth recorded january storm. the second earliest a-named storm. there was one back in 1938 that became a hurricane. and something like this happens out of hurricane season about once every ten years. so it s not a complete hairty. as far as our weather in the lower 48, still cold in many spots. the thing to watch is this rainstorm now starting in the gulf of mexico. not so much today southern portions of coastal louisiana will get a little bit. also northern portions of florida. as we go throughout friday soaking rains go through alabama, mississippi, southern half of georgia and then florida could deal with some pretty strong thunderstorms friday afternoon. friday night to saturday morning mid-atlantic but then it s trending offshore so we could get a pretty decent forecast as we go towards saturday in new england. it was looking very rainy. now it s not looking too bad. okay el nino giving us storms in january is not good. but i will take that, bill tha
it s like we flipped the switch in one day. today is june 1st. before the forecast with the rain today, this is the beginning of our hurricane season. nothing out there of any interest right now. typically june is quiet. in may we had our a. named storm. here s the forecast. average is about 12 named storms. they re calling below average. the big ones the cat threes we haven t had any of those hit our country in over a decade. one of the longest stretches ever. we ve been fortunate and lucky. we don t expect many this year. maybe we is can add one more year of the list. we have flash flood watches from hartford providence and down to d.c. yesterday this was flash flooding in the atlanta area. we had it around new york but these pictures in atlanta are