Talking Tropics - Sept. 13, 2024: Tracking Post-Tropical Cyclone Francine, Tropical Storm Ileana

Published: Sep 12, 2024 Duration: 00:02:16 Category: News & Politics

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Good morning. I'm meteorologist, Shane Hinton with your September 13th morning tropical update. We're giving you a look here at post tropical cyclone Francine. As you can see it still definitely has its uh counterclockwise flow associated with that area of low pressure, bringing tropical rain still to parts of Florida and now extending up toward the Midwest. Now, we're not really gonna be tracking um an additional path for this system. It's just gonna keep on bringing rain to the Midwest throughout the weekend. But I, I do want to give you a look at this right here. We have tropical storm Iliana if this name doesn't sound familiar to you. It's because this is a Pacific system and we've been giving you the list of the Atlantic systems uh throughout this season. The reason I highlight this is because you can see on the future track that we could see some moisture from Iliana, maybe even make it into some parts of Texas. I do not see that impacting us here in central Texas uh but just wanted to showcase it to you in case maybe you are out to West Texas or maybe even southwest Texas as some rain showers could be possible for those locations. We're gonna be trending actually fairly on the dry side, rainfall wise, not only through the weekend, but even in the first half of next week with only uh isolated coastal plain showers each afternoon, then let's go out to the Atlantic Basin. We have three areas that we're monitoring. We have this area off the southeast US coastline that has a 30% chance of development over the next week. Then we have an area that's sitting over the or Antilles with a 20% chance of development over the next 48 hours. And then we had a little bit further east in the Atlantic and we're still keeping our eyes on tropical depression seven. Now, yesterday morning, in my update, I was telling you that the National Hurricane Center had a forecast for this to become a tropical storm. Yesterday. It did not clearly and the forecast is still calling for it to happen. Currently, sustained winds are at 35 MPH. It's moving to the west and northwest at 14 miles per hour. As of the early early morning update from the National Hurricane Center. Here's the latest forecast cone. It is expected to become a tropical storm maybe sometime later today or early Saturday morning. Then it will kind of deescalated back down to a tropical depression uh before moving a little bit further to the west. Now, if it does become a tropical storm. Uh, we are moving on to the G name which is Gordon. We'll continue to track the tropics for you here in the KVI Weather center and provide those updates both on air and online.

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