Gilma and Hector both pose tropical trouble for Hawaii
While the Atlantic Ocean remains calm in terms of tropical development, two separate tropical storms have Hawaii in their sights.
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00:00And the Atlantic things are starting to get a little more active as we look into next week
00:04Yeah, they've been a little quiet here as of late
00:08But we're still now keeping an eye on the tropics because we're heading right into the peak of hurricane season
00:14And we're tracking a pretty volatile September. Yeah, we do expect to see between six and ten named storms in September alone
00:21We've had five named storms so far this year in the Atlantic now in the Pacific
00:25Hawaii dealt with some recent heavy rain and wind debris
00:28Yeah, that was from what was hurricane Hone over the weekend now
00:33We are keeping an eye on Gilma and Hector still sitting out in the Pacific though Jeff
00:39Yeah, I feel like we've been talking about Gilma for quite some time now
00:41We have she's the storms been around for a little bit hanging in there absolutely
00:46And we're watching as at this point the Hone is moving away from Western, Hawaii
00:53We had some very heavy rain over 25 inches of rain on part of the Big Island when this moved through
01:00Again at this point Hone is moving to the west and moving away
01:04Out to the kind of the western part of the central Pacific right now
01:08So we're not going to see much more to that particular storm
01:12But as you can see this storm is going to continue to drift west and we're going to see this lose wind energy soon
01:17So by the time we hit Thursday
01:19This should be back down to either a tropical depression or even a tropical rainstorm, but off to the east here
01:24We have Gilma Gilma doesn't look all that impressive right now
01:28It's kind of a small nugget of convection
01:30But we are still seeing again max sustained winds of 65 miles per hour
01:36And this is moving pretty swiftly to the west at 15 miles per hour
01:39It's on a trajectory to eventually lift a little bit north of the Big Island in a weaker state
01:44So we'll be watching as Gilma closes in as a tropical depression on the Big Island pulling north Friday
01:49It will be losing a lot of its wind energy
01:51It'll be a more manageable storm and unlike the path that again Hone took
01:56This one's gonna actually bring a different trajectory in so with the islands mainly on the south side of the storm track
02:04You can envision the circulation around the storm
02:06That's going to actually drive some rainfall into the west facing typically the drier side of some of these islands
02:12And that'll be good because that'll help to mitigate some of the drought and fire danger concerns
02:17Tropical storm Hector is actually looking a lot more robust here
02:20This has had a pretty good day of deeper convection moving west northwest at 12 miles per hour max
02:25Sustained winds 50 miles per hour right now, and we'll be watching Hector, but overall similar to Gilma
02:31We expect some weakening in fact the weakening is gonna happen much sooner with this one
02:34To a tropical rainstorm before it also follows closely on
02:38Gilma's path to the north of the islands barely also bringing some rain and perhaps some drought relief with little wind
02:45Into the Hawaiian Islands here. We have the infrared satellite loop for the Atlantic when we say infrared
02:51We're looking at the temperature of the top layer of clouds
02:53So if you have a big zone of deep reds and oranges
02:56That's very tall cloud tops where it's very cold
02:59Even if you're down over the equator strong tropical waves a couple of these scattered across the Atlantic
03:04We have a big zone of dry air where
03:06Tropical waves are really fighting through some dryness at this point, and we'll be watching as one or two of these waves
03:13May organize this weekend into early next week a low chance of that the better chance for development's gonna come into the Caribbean
03:20Late next week still more than a week away, but overall what's kept things in check recently?
03:25It's not been sheer as much as dry weather and dry air the moisture is
03:29Increasing across the tropics and in that maroon color you can see this is where we have abundant tropical moisture drifting in so these tropical
03:36Waves are a little more widespread a little more robust and less dry air
03:39We still don't expect to see development anytime too soon
03:42But late next week about eight nine ten days from now over the Caribbean or perhaps the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos
03:49We'll be watching for a zone of more favorable
03:52conducive conditions for development