Ernesto Over Florida
This morning, Tropical Storm Ernesto is over southern Florida, with winds reported at 45 MPH. Fortunately for Floridians, the storm didn’t pick up much steam as it traveled between Cuba and the US. However, the storm has an eye, which you can see in the picture below, taken shortly after 8:00 on Wednesday.
By early Thursday, the storm will have moved off the Florida coast and will again be over open water. The Hurricane Center isn’t predicting that he will become a hurricane again before making landfall again in South Carolina late Thursday night, but has left open the possibility with a hurricane watch along the coast. Once the storm makes it’s second landfall, it will travel through North Carolina and Virginia as a tropical storm, and then dissipate somewhere near Erie, Pennsylvania on Sunday.
Here in Atlanta, the main effect of Ernesto will be to stall out a frontal system over our area for the next 36 hours. Our area has been sandwiched between the low pressure system to the north, and Ernesto to the south, keeping dewpoints and the chance of precipitation high. We’ll see the same type of weather through the start of the weekend. Over the weekend, it will be cooler and a little less humid, although there is a chance of a thunderstorm each day.
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