Watching both Nate and Maria closely!
Rain is the in the forecast for the morning and afternoon for your Friday. More sun by the weekend. Expect back to normal pattern by the weekend. That means morning sun with afternoon rain.
Lets talk a bit about Nate. A very slow moving system in the southern gulf. Wind right now is getting closer to hurricane strength, 70 mph. Since it looks like Nate will spend the next five days over the water we do expect it to become a hurricane really soon. Nate will start moving to the north slowly the next few days. Some of the models place Nate in the middle of the gulf by early next week. If it stalls there, it could possably move closer to Florida. I am feeling pretty good that Nate will start a turn more to the northwest by day four and five. This is a wait and watch system.
Maria is a tropical storm that may weaken into a depression the next few days. Either way the five day cone puts Maria over the Bahamas by day five. I am feeling good about the long range models that keep Maria out in the Atlantic and off the east coast of Flordia for the duration of it's life. Right now Maria has wind at 40 mph and is moving quickly to the west. It may look a bit scary now, but it is running into a lot of wind sheer and Maria could even fall apart by day three. Stay tuned on this one as well.
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Scott Zedeker
WINK TV Meteorologist
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Scott Zedeker
WINK TV Meteorologist
