Joaquin. Its in the bahamas gaining strength with a possible track for the east coast this weekend. Good evening everyone. Im jim rosenfield. The umbrellas are up. Were tracking the impact in our area. Sheena parveen is watching the first problem. Strong winds and heavy rain. Thats right, jim. The first round going into the weekend will begin friday into saturday. We do have a first alert weather day. Tomorrow well have rain around but the strongest winds and the heaviest rain we expect to start friday. Heavy downpours with very gusty winds. Possibly up to 50 miles an hour wind gusts. Also flooding along the shore and inland. Beach erosion and storm surge possible with the strong on shore winds. Heres whats happening now. A cold front moved through. Now a cooldown going into tomorrow. The winds increased. Windy and breezy and chilly temperatures through the afternoon. Then well be watching this area of low pressure to our south. Right off the southeast coast. This is what were watching
The pressure is dropping. Its slowly moving to the southwest right now at 8 miles an hour. But take look at a factor to consider. The water temperature where it is churning right now are in the 80s. So that will help fuel the intensity of this system and take look at this. As it continues to move toward the mid atlantic were still talking about water temperatures in the 70s so it will maintain likely a hurricane status as it continues into the higher latitude. As we talk about the latest projected path, you could see as we move toward saturday, its still off of the southeast coast but take look at that. Major category three storm by saturday and then as we move toward sunday, around the outerbanks of North Carolina, category two storm. It will weaken and right now, this path takes it into the Chesapeake Bay as we move toward sunday into monday with a lot of heavy rainfall gusty winds and flooding. So before joaquin were watching this boundary and also some rain thats riding along it. C