If it’s not one thing, then it’s another for Florida this summer.As the state deals with a record number of COVID-19 cases with the delta variant lurking, there are two weather patterns in the Atlantic Ocean that could become tropical depressions this week, and both could have Florida in their sights.
The state in 2021 has already dealt with Elsa, which skirted the western part of the state as a Category 1 hurricane before degrading and lashing the coast as a high-level tropical storm.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) stated late Sunday that the two systems in the eastern Atlantic could likely become tropical depressions, and perhaps later tropical storms. There is still no safe cone route beyond the next few. five days, but each of their current locations, both east and south of the Lesser Antilles, could prepare them for landfall along the US Gulf of Mexico border. they dictate it.
The closest system was about 400 miles east-southeast of the Leeward Islands, according to Sunday’s 8 p.m. report from the hurricane center. That system is producing a swath of “disorganized showers and thunderstorms” for now, stated the NHC.
“However, environmental conditions are expected to be conducive to gradual development over the next few days, and a tropical depression could form as the low moves west-northwest at about 15 mph,” the forecast said.
This system could reach the Lesser Antilles and perhaps even Puerto Rico on Monday night and early Tuesday, with most of the heavy rains.
It could reach Hispaniola, or perhaps even Cuba, in the middle of the week, setting up the storm for a possible landing in Florida at the weekend.
The second system is a little further out in the Atlantic Ocean with a 40 percent chance of becoming a tropical system in the next five days, with a 30 percent chance of development within a 48 hour period, or on Tuesday. at night.
“Although environmental conditions appear to be only marginally conducive to development, this system could still turn into a tropical depression later this week as it moves west-southwest or west at around 10 mph,” the service said. .
That storm could have a similar trajectory to the other disturbance.
This is happening as COVID-19 cases increase, this is a brief summary.
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