Tropical Depression Ten forms, eyes Florida

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A new tropical system has taken shape and will track across the Gulf of Mexico before approaching the United States in the coming days.

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:02 Well, we're taking our eye to the tropics.

00:07 And what do you need to know for early next week?

00:10 Well, we have a system that is brewing

00:12 in the Eastern Gulf of Mexico.

00:14 Development is likely to become a high-end tropical storm

00:18 or a category one hurricane.

00:20 And we are expecting landfall impacts to the US.

00:23 That's going to be from the Panhandle to the Big Bite.

00:26 So Florida landfall, heads up.

00:29 We are tracking tropical impacts.

00:31 And so if we look at the tropical storm now,

00:34 well, it's been able to breed in the Gulf of Mexico

00:37 because we have very warm ocean waters.

00:40 And also as we head into early next week,

00:42 we're going to start to see weakened

00:45 or at least lessened wind shear.

00:47 So that's going to open up the Gulf of Mexico

00:49 for business for tropical development.

00:52 And so what we have this weekend,

00:55 while it's still sitting here in the Gulf,

00:57 it's little movement.

00:58 So that's good news for the storm,

01:00 not necessarily good news in terms of tropical development

01:03 and impacts to land.

01:04 But as it continues to track North,

01:07 you see we have strong wind shear through Sunday.

01:10 Watch what happens as we head into the early week though.

01:12 That wind shear starts the weekend.

01:14 And so that's going to allow this system to barrel North

01:18 because we have limited wind shear,

01:20 we have warm ocean temperatures,

01:22 and we have plenty of moisture

01:24 that we are playing around with.

01:25 And so all recipes for a strengthening tropical storm.

01:30 Now, we are anticipating it to become a category one

01:35 hurricane by early Wednesday,

01:38 anticipating it to make landfall.

01:40 And then it's going to shoot North and East

01:42 as we take this throughout next Thursday into Friday.

01:45 That's when it's going to start to lose

01:46 some of that wind intensity after it hits land.

01:49 And then it's going to turn back down to a tropical storm,

01:52 but still packing quite the punch.

01:54 We do have a moderate risk to lives and property

01:57 that's going to extend across the Eastern seaboard

01:59 through the Carolinas, down through the Georgia coast,

02:02 and a little bit even inland too,

02:04 down through the Florida panhandle.

02:06 That means a moderate risk to lives and property.

02:08 Okay, rough seas and strong rip currents.

02:11 Make sure that you aren't driving through any flooded areas

02:13 or roadways and not going to be the best time

02:17 to maybe head out to the beach.

02:19 Again, rough seas and strong rip currents.

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