I take an inordinate interest in tropical weather. I always have since I’m a windsurfer. When I was living at the beach I was always keeping an eye for the storms that would come close enough to provide nice, sailable conditions. Now that I deploy every so often for FEMA contracts to move patients, I have another reason to keep an eye on things.
So it looks like we have our first possible tropical system headed toward the Gulf (maybe) with a possible strike date of Sunday or Monday. The water temperatures aren’t really conducive to much more than a tropical storm…probably not a categorized hurricane. It will be interesting to see how the season unfolds this year.
Here is a look at “Invest 90” currently organizing over the Yucatan Peninsula…
Here is a great site to look at atmospheric models. Usually they are all over the place for 5-7 days out and start to come together a few days out:
No matter what happens with Invest 90, it looks like it will be an extremely wet weekend ahead for the southeastern US…