Tropical System Possible for Gulf This Weekend
Weather forecasters are keeping an eye on an upper-level low pressure system off of the eastern Florida coast that has the possibility of developing into a tropical storm, or worse, by this weekend.
The system has brought rain and high winds to coastal areas between Miami and Savannah this week, and the expectation is that the storm will move west across Florida, and into the Gulf, where it will strengthen into a tropical storm. The picture below shows model predictions as of this afternoon:
While most of the models show the storm passing over the Tampa area, the Canadian model (in yellow) has the storm passing over Jacksonville and into Georgia and Alabama, and the CLP5 model has the storm moving up the Atlantic coast, never reaching the US coastline. Yesterday, the Atlanta Weather Service office noted the possibility of the storm bringing rain to the Atlanta area by the weekend, however, the current thinking seems to be that the storm will stay to our south.
There are still a lot of variables, and a tropical storm may never develop, but it’s worth keeping an eye on.
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