Ian is in for leigh spann this morning. Yeah, things are heating up on queue. This is what we expect if late august we head towards the peak of Hurricane Season which typically falls on september 10th. Tropical depression fiona. Thats decaying and should continue to weaken over the next few days. Gaston, the Tropical Storm developed last night and thats intensifying and could become a hurricane as early as tonight. Invest 99l, thats what were watching closely. We will look at that in a moment could become a hurricane tonight, kass one hurricane but notice the track well out to tonight, category one but notice the track well out to sea. And notice the forecast track, good agreement taking this system towards the bahamas. That would be by the end of the weekend or early next week aircraft 60 chance of develop. No cause for development so it could impact florida but that would be next week. We will hold on to that good news. And traffic folks, heres whats going on. A big issue in the polk
It eventually merges into the gulf of mexico. The overall trend has been for a weaker storm. Five Day Development chance has dropped to 40 . A lot of models taking it toward the central gulf. One thing thats been inhibiting this development, look at the areas of orange and red. Thats where we have high windshear. That typically stops these things from strengthening. Get better next week, this is how it will impact our area. A big influx of tropical moisture is expected next week. That will result in higher rain chances locally. This morning 79 degrees. Locally 92 this afternoon. Warm and steamy. Rain chance 40 today. As i mentioned, it looks like more area will be getting wet next week. Umbrellas are getting a workout as we start off the next work eight days in greater detail coming up. New overnight a man is injured after a mobile home fire in lakeland. Firefighters responded to the home on new tampa highway before 11 00 last night. The man has burns on his hands and arm. He is expect
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Coast. Its sheered apart a lot but its still a Tropical Storm. 40miles per hour, thankfully leaving the charleston area alone for the moment because its been dealing with flooding due to julia, but look at the forecast track. It makes the the loop, starts to come back toward the South Carolina coast so theyll be dealing with this through the weekend. This is an active time. We have Tropical Storm ian which thankfully is not going to be the an issue over off the coast of africa now, tropical depression 12, though it will remain weak. And locally, our big issue is an onshore wind flow. And that adds humidity to the forecast. And you may get one or two showers along the coast in the morning, about a 10 rain chance. And that goes up through the day to about 40 rain chance after 3 00 p. M. And the storms push farther inland. Coming up in weather and traffic on the 8s, i have an hourbyhour look at your right now, its prety decent. We have an issue its pretty decent. We have an issue, a full
Bit. When you see these bands ashore, they can be very, very strong. This is the 5 00 advisory with 75 mileperhour winds. In the grand scheme of things, the intensities arent that great. Its a category 1 hurricane. Its formable, but its a category 1 hurricane. Still doing damage to many folks and likely will the next Tropical Storm warnings west coast of florida. Nasty line of thunderstorms and showers and high winds coming ashore. Also the possibility. Weve seen this. Tornado warnings are possible as it moves ashore. Moving at 45 Miles Per Hour to the north northeast. So know that within this areas it comes onshore, you can see strong wind gusts. Outside chances of seeing a brief tornado across the central part of Pinellas County right now. Youve seen Tropical Storm wind sarasota. Possibly not as intense but still very brief wind gusts are possible. Tropical storm warning for the west coast of florida. Well continue to track this thing and watch the high tides now the next 24 hours. T