NYC Fall Rushes In Tropical Concern Increases

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NYC Fall Rushes In Tropical Concern Increases

Good afternoon everyone. Fiona is on the move and fishing towards New Foundland, which has also helped usher in some very cool and breezy conditions for our area this time of year. High temps made it into the low 60’s today, and that will be that for the day. The other news aside from the pleasant conditions for this weekend and into next week, are the tropics. We talked on Wednesday (and for several weeks now), my concern about any hypothetical old front developing tropical activity along it, or guiding up something from the western Caribbean. My concerns are coming to fruition as we are watching a tropical depression that will eventually become Tropical Storm, then Hurricane Hermine in the western Caribbean. We’ll discuss the latest below.

SATELLITE

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Expect sunshine and a continuing breeze today with our low 60’s sinking into the upper 40’s overnight. Outside of the city, widespread mid 40’s are possible, and we even have some frost issues in the higher elevations upstate.

Tomorrow is a perfect day with diminishing winds and highs near 70. Clouds will creep in on Sunday with a reinforcing shot of cool air, and we could see a few scattered showers out of it. It’ll be more humid and milder in the mid 70’s.

WEATHER RADAR

Sunshine returns on Monday, and we’ll be in the mid 70’s once more before we cool off again. After that, look for low 70’s Tuesday and Wednesday, then upper 60’s to near 70 Thursday and Friday.

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As for the tropics, we will watch the progress of our depression from the southern Caribbean and into the NW Caribbean. Strengthening is pretty much a certainty as future-Hermine heads towards the western tip of Cuba. As of now, we won’t go past Tuesday/Wednesday, but we will likely see some sort of S. Florida impact during that time frame. It may be indirect at first depending on the path, with Hermine possibly sitting in the Gulf near Western Florida, or it could be a more direct impact with the Florida Keys.

Beyond that, we will have to wait and see where she goes and give the models a chance to become more accurate in terms of seeing the timing of our own front and our own high pressure. Essentially though, everyone should be preparing now for some kind of possible impact, ranging from the eastern Gulf Coast, from Mississippi to the West Coast of FL, the Keys, the East Coast of FL, inland FL due to possible flash flooding/severe weather issues, along the SE coast including GA to NC, and inland Southeast.

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