A soggy weekend for Florida could be the start of a tropical system
After a storm system soaks Florida this weekend, it could potentially strengthen into a named storm over the Gulf of Mexico.
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00:00 something might be brewing more than
00:01 one thing over the next few days.
00:03 Maybe even something we like to
00:05 call a homegrown situation.
00:06 That could be the case.
00:07 We're watching tropical wave right
00:09 now pushing into the Sunshine State.
00:11 Why Fort Lauderdale has been
00:12 dealing with all of that rainfall?
00:14 So we still expect that to continue
00:16 through the weekend for most of
00:18 the Florida Peninsula and you can
00:19 see that well this comes through.
00:21 It's got the clouds, the showers,
00:23 the wet weather, the rainfall,
00:25 the risk for some localized flooding,
00:26 and also some of the rough weather.
00:29 Also some of the rough seas.
00:30 Now you can tell already we've had
00:32 some of that rain working its way in.
00:34 There's more as you push your
00:36 way out into the Bahamas,
00:37 but the showers mostly dying
00:39 down at this point in time.
00:40 Not much left here on the radar as we
00:42 talk about some of that wet weather
00:44 across the Florida Peninsula.
00:46 So this is where the actions going down
00:48 in the southeast for the days to come.
00:50 The rest of the southeast enjoying
00:52 some of that pleasant weather
00:53 farther to the north.
00:54 Meanwhile,
00:54 the heat still baking off towards the West.
00:57 It is going to be that action
00:58 in Florida that captures at least.
01:00 The radars attention as is our attention
01:02 temperatures in the 90s in Jacksonville,
01:04 but as you can tell,
01:05 there will be that threat for
01:07 thunderstorms and some extra clouds.
01:09 So we're looking at that in Tampa
01:11 too as you push to the north,
01:13 though no signs of rain keeping
01:15 things dry in Atlanta 92 for the
01:17 high and triple digits off towards
01:19 the West now as we go through time,
01:21 there's the rain pushing in for
01:23 your Saturday evening.
01:24 Plenty of wet weather as we go
01:26 throughout Saturday,
01:26 especially if you're in central
01:28 and southern Florida.
01:28 So we're talking South of that I4 corridor.
01:30 That's where some of the heaviest rain
01:32 will continue to slide its way on through.
01:34 Then after that,
01:35 this tropical wave is still moving
01:37 into the Gulf of Mexico with it.
01:39 I think it kicks up a little bit more
01:41 rain for the West Coast of Florida.
01:43 Getting through Sunday,
01:44 but the story,
01:45 at least for Florida,
01:46 is starting to wrap up.
01:47 It's not the end of the story,
01:49 though,
01:50 for this complex of showers and thunderstorms.
01:52 It's going to keep pushing its
01:53 way off towards the West due to
01:55 all that heat in the central US.
01:57 That's building and that means we
01:59 need to keep an eye on it for any
02:01 possible development as it moves into Texas.
02:04 Not the only area we're tracking.
02:05 There is another tropical wave in
02:07 the middle of the Atlantic that won't
02:09 pose much of a threat to land that
02:12 could also be the next storm system.
02:14 But as this goes into Texas,
02:15 it will be a low pressure system
02:18 with more rainfall and that heavy
02:19 rain has some impacts for Texas.
02:21 As far as showers,
02:23 some localized flooding.
02:24 That's a possibility.
02:24 The good news is it'll try to
02:27 break down a little bit of that
02:29 heat through Southern Texas,
02:30 but not really offer too much for
02:32 the rest of the Lone Star State.
02:34 You can find the stormy weather in Naples.
02:36 Hard to get a beach day in for this weekend.
02:40 Kevin. You got it.
02:41 The summer coming to an end.
02:43 Some people want to get that one last weekend,
02:45 but it's going to be tough out there in Florida.