Labor day weekend. Wednesday night. Jims off. Im rick williams. And the the big story on action news tonight is tropical trouble, as the latest forecast puts the storm on a forecast for the tristate area. Hermine is already bringing flooding rains to the Sunshine State and it hasnt even made landfall there yet. That wont happen until tomorrow night at the earliest. And it may be a hurricane by then. 51 counties are now under a state of emergency. Meteorologist adam joseph is monitoring hermines progress at this hour. Whats the latest . The latest just came in from the National Hurricane center and hermine continues to strengthen over the last several hours. Winds now sustained at 60 miles an hour. That is up from near 40mileanhour sustained winds early on today. The center of the storm is right about there. You can see the flareup of storms especially southeast displaced from the center of hermine but also were dealing with southerly winds bringing in tropical rains already through muc
Tropical rains already through much of the state of florida. In fact, stormtracker 6 live double scan will show these thunderstorms through tampa, orlando, where several inches of rain has already fallen and the storm is still close to 300 miles away from the coastline of tampa. There are Tropical Storm warnings and watches for much of northern florida, but something that the National Hurricane center just added is a hurricane warning now from apalachicola to cedar key where theyre expecting that landfall to happen somewhere in between those two cities. And they upgraded it to a hurricane warning because now theyre thinking is their think something that hermine will become a weak category 1 hurricane before landfall on thursday, so expecting to strengthen a little more. And then it heads up the eastern seaboard, first pretty quick i had and then it will drift around hour our region between saturday, sunday and labor day just off of our coastline with that latest track. So sunday is the