FRIDAY AFTERNOON UPDATE: Florida Should Keep An Eye On Growing Disturbance…
BY: WEATHER TEAM | BocaNewsNow.com
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2023 MetroDesk Media, LLC) (Updated 5 p.m.) — Peak Hurricane Season is just around the corner and as Friday gets underway, there are six systems in the Atlantic, east of Florida, that the National Hurricane Center is watching. The good news: all but one seem unlikely to pose any potential of a threat to Florida. The bad news: there’s a lot that can happen over the next several weeks.
This is the Friday update from the NHC:
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
200 PM EDT Fri Sep 1 2023
For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane
Franklin, located several hundred miles northeast of Bermuda, on
Post-Tropical Cyclone Idalia, located a couple of hundred miles
west-southwest of Bermuda, on Tropical Storm Jose, located several
hundred miles east-northeast of Bermuda, on Tropical Depression
Gert, located several hundred miles east-southeast of Bermuda, and
on newly formed Tropical Depression Twelve, located a few hundred
miles northwest of the Cabo Verde Islands.
1. Eastern and Central Tropical Atlantic:
A tropical wave is expected to move off the west coast of Africa
during the next day or so. Environmental conditions appear conducive
for some gradual development of this system during the early and
middle parts of next week, and a tropical depression could form
while it moves westward to west-northwestward over the eastern and
central portions of the tropical Atlantic.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…near 0 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days…medium…50 percent.
Public Advisories on Gert are issued under WMO header WTNT32 KNHC
and under AWIPS header MIATCPAT2.
Forecast/Advisories on Gert are issued under WMO header WTNT22 KNHC
and under AWIPS header MIATCMAT2.
Public Advisories on Tropical Depression Twelve are issued under
WMO header WTNT34 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCPAT4.
Forecast/Advisories on Tropical Depression Twelve are issued under
WMO header WTNT24 KNHC and under AWIPS header MIATCMAT4.
