Similar to yesterday. 60 to 70 rain chances mainly in the afternoon. Winds are tropical depression nine are still at 35 miles an hour, though the Hurricane Center confident it should become a Tropical Storm later today. Notice how it starts to increase the intensity by wednesday afternoon and then by thursday morning, its still well offshore. By friday morning its in the jacksonville area. Its making levy county. That path would give us two, maybe three things to be concerned about. Number one, the very heavy rain associated with any tropical system to some minor coastal flooding, especially at high tide. On the eastern side of the landfalling system, you tend to spin up tornados, isolated tornados. Time frame for this is Late Wednesday night right through thursday afternoon. To get the fast moving showers from time to time. Okay . Russell preparations are underway for tropical depression number nine. Communities around the tampa bay area are offering free sand bags ahead of the storm.
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Are several systems that youre watching. Yes a couple of them. We lost one a couple of days ago, but we still have 99 l. And the other storm well off to our east, but were mostly concerned with 99 l. Which essentially is not anything in terms of a tropical depression, tropical storm, anything like, that but it is there, and gaston should stay out to see. It is mostly 99 l. That they did investigate with a Hurricane Hunter aircraft earlier today and did determine strong wind gu circulation at the lower levels. Were seeing the wide spread thunderstorms around this area which isnt uncommon when a system is trying to get going. This is a fairly large Geographic Area and thats what the Hurricane Hunter saw today. There you see it relative to the state of florida, basically east, the center east and north of puerto rico at this point. You do see the thunderstorms around the red color. It would indicate the cooler cloud top where is the stronger thunderstorms may have occurred. Spaghetti mode
Couple of days, once it moves from the higher terrain of his poniyiyial hispanola, we mig see and regardless of winds, which again, were not going to be able to tell you here at 6 00 a. M. On thursday morning exactly whats going on happen, i can tell you a lot of heavy rain may come through the state early next week. That in itself could be an issue. Were at 78 degrees. Were going to forecast 92. Rain chance of talk much more about what potential impacts it may have, 99l in our state. Vanessa and 6 01. Bring you to eastern hillsborough county. This is an incident since the start of good day at 4 00. This appears to be a medical emergency. Not tying up any lanes but do remember to move over here. Still dealing with the scene on the shoulder eastbound direction near county line road. Of frame but theres a vehicle off the freeway and were told that that driver had a medical emergency. Were seeing a loft deputies in the area before searching the grass with flashlights. That being said, wer
Same area, tampa road and u. S. 19, earlier crash from overnight that involved a semi. That has cleared. Now we have a new crash in this area reported, looks like some lanes are still blocked, might want to avoid that area if you can. You can try belcher instead. Checking out another crash eastbound i4 just before you get to macintosh, you can see it here not really seeing delays and westbound into tampa looking pretty good. 6 01. We will continue on weather and traffic conditions all morning to help keep you safe. People in Citrus County are paying especially close attention to the forecast. They could take the brunt of the storm in our area as ivan told you a little while ago. They are going to see heavy rain and also gusty winds throughout the day today and tomorrow. And because of that restaurants like the freezer tiki bar have generators on standby, its next to the Homosassa River. Several parks west of u. S. 19 will be also closed later this afternoon for everyones still have tim