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latest on the tropics. that s right. obviously an active time as we head toward the end of august and beginning of september. we expect the atlantic to get active. we have two systems we are watching. we have hurricane gaston which has just weakened to a tropical storm just moments ago coming in at 11:00 a.m. it was a hurricane and now back to a tropical storm. and then we have invest 99l which the hurricane hunters have been investigating it. still not finding a center of about an 80% chance of development in the next five days. and now tropical storm gaston. you can see it s going to stay in the atlantic although it should regain category one hurricane state road 54 us this weekend. not an issue for anyone hurricane status this weekend. and not an issue for anyone. this tropical wave, they recall morning, the noaa hurricane hunters went through the storm center and found a wind speed then made their way back to tampa. so they ll use that data they checked in the f ....
have. we noticed some major models trending. you can see the cone of air there does take us out of the cone of error. except for the small part of citrus county. the northern sections there. friday, and eventually into saturday, passing well to the north of us, what this does is we get closer to potential landfall some time on thursday. the cone shrinks just a little more. most of tampa bay is out of the cone of error. that doesn t mean we won t feel some efs. collin. it will go roughly the same path. trending a little further north with some of the computer models as we put them all on a map. as we analyze what it looks like from a distance, there is a circulation there and perhaps more thunderstorms on the southern part of the center of the storm. but, it just suggests that the dry air and the wind shear is having an impact on the storm itself. a look at the hurricane hunter aircraft. they have been flying around throughout the day. they discovered within the center o ....
the forecast center. i can t call it a name because it still doesn t have one. it is just depression 9. hermine is the next tropical depression on the list. it could be good news that it is not a tropical storm. that it is is a tropical depression. not in a very good environment. not much better than it was 24 hours ago. there is the big picture there. gaston out to sea. we are interested in tropical depression number 9 wh still a tropical depression by the way. according to the national hurricane center. as of 5:00, 35 miles an hour winds. there s your forecast track very close to what the consensus of the major models are doing. a slight northerly shift. of course, as we get closer to potential landfall, the cone itself, that white cone, gets a little thinner. 65 miles an hour thursday afternoon. you can see moving off to the northeast. tropical cyclone. we could bring some very strong tides into the west coast of florida. especially high tide thursday any time from ....
international space station of hurricane lester. lester could affect hawaii over the weekend. and nasa is also giving us pictures of hurricane madeleine, also in the pacific. and gaston in the atlantic. and leigh, we should be thankful they are not coming our way but a big mess of weather is. that s right. this is the most active time for hurricane season. we still have tropical depression nine in the gulf of mexico. i am seeing a formed tropical system. as of 5:00, the hurricane center says it was not organized enough to become a tropical storm. though that should happen quickly. we told you about this hurricane watch. a watch means you could feel hurricane-force gusts within 48 hours. and some of that has been upgraded. this area west of 19 from citrus, hernando and pasco county, it s now a tropical storm warning. and the difference in that is the timing frame. could feel tropical storm-force winds within 36 hours. as the system gets closer to us. the watch, the t ....
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