Tropical weather
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As of 11 pm, Idalia has strengthened to just under a Category 3 storm with winds of 110 mph and a small eye and is expected to continue to strengthen overnight before it makes landfall in Florida tomorrow morning. The forecasts have been shifting slightly west all day, and observers are watching carefully on Tuesday…
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Over the course of the day, Idalia become much better organized and strengthened a lot compared to yesterday’s status. It is expected to become a hurricane soon. Additional measurements and computer models have allowed the National Hurricane Center to tighten up the forecast cone predicting where Idalia will go and how strong it will get.…
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Early Sunday morning, Tropical Depression 10 became Tropical Storm Idalia. Today, the storm wobbled south and did not show much sign of organizing, but in the last couple of hours on Sunday that has started to change, and the circulation is starting to look more robust. This is a sign that the storm is likely…
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At 5 pm on Saturday the National Hurricane Center designated the tropical low pressure center in the southern Gulf to be Tropical Depression 10, which signals that there is a closed circulation and starts the process of producing forecast maps for the storm. It is expected to become Tropical Storm Idalia as soon as they…
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The amount and timing of rain we get this week depends largely on the track and speed of likely Tropical Storm Idalia, which is gathering strength today near the Yucutan Peninsula and the west coast of Cuba. It is not yet a tropical storm but is expected to be declared one in the next day…
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The National Hurricane Center is currently watching Investigation 93, a low pressure area located in the northwestern Caribbean Sea, for likely development into a tropical storm (Idalia, pronounced ee-DAL-ya) and possibly a Category 1 hurricane in the next week before it makes landfall somewhere along the coast of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico. Since the…
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The latest Atlantic tropical outlook for the next week shows several areas of interest plus Tropical Storm Franklin, which crossed the Dominican Republic today and is headed north. The remains of Emily are showing a pretty high likelihood of reforming but will not affect the United States, and the eastern wave also does not show…
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