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00:02 I'm meteorologist Michelle McLeod
00:07 and you see this behind me,
00:09 well, you know what time it is.
00:10 It is time to talk the tropics.
00:13 Yes, we're still talking about the tropics.
00:15 Now it's past September 10th,
00:17 so we have rounded the peak of hurricane season,
00:20 but we're not done with it just yet.
00:22 We have two little peaks left until we get into November
00:24 and things really start to drop off there.
00:26 So we already rounded the beginning of October,
00:29 the October 1st peak,
00:31 and now we're heading towards that October 20th peak.
00:35 So we still have some activity
00:36 that we're gonna be talking about.
00:37 Let's get straight to it.
00:39 All right, I've got two things going on in the tropics here.
00:43 I've got Sheen, Sean, however you wanna say it.
00:46 I mean, it looks like Sean,
00:48 but we know how the National Weather Service can be.
00:50 And then we're gonna take a look at this tropical wave
00:53 off the coast of Africa.
00:54 Those are gonna be the two things that we're eyeing.
00:56 Now, Sean is gonna make its way a little farther west
00:59 towards the Lesser Antilles,
01:00 but it is entering an area
01:03 that's gonna have a little more wind shear.
01:05 So you can see that it's a tropical depression
01:08 or a tropical rainstorm here.
01:10 It's not picking up any intensity.
01:11 It's kinda just staying pretty steady.
01:15 And by 8 p.m. on Wednesday,
01:16 it finally starts to get close to those Lesser Antilles.
01:21 And so it's not looking to have huge impacts.
01:23 I mean, the impacts from this kind of system
01:26 will be a little bit of rain, some wind,
01:28 perhaps a little bit of rough surf
01:30 for portions of the Lesser Antilles.
01:33 Now we're gonna turn our attention
01:35 to what was happening off the coast of Africa.
01:37 If you don't remember, I'll rewind it so you can see again.
01:39 We were looking at Sean or Sheen,
01:41 however you wanna pronounce it,
01:43 but we're also taking a look
01:45 at this wave off the coast of Africa there.
01:47 And you got a bit of activity
01:49 happening off the coast of Africa.
01:51 So let's fast forward things to talk about
01:53 what's going on with that wave off the coast of Africa.
01:56 Do you see this?
01:57 Yeah, October 16th through the 19th.
02:01 It's got a high potential for development
02:04 to become a tropical system.
02:05 And lately, we've been looking at homegrown development.
02:08 Anything in the Caribbean or the Gulf of Mexico Basin
02:11 or right in the Eastern Seaboard,
02:12 but this time, this is something outside
02:15 of that homegrown development that we're looking at.
02:17 So again, from the 16th to the 19th,
02:19 that wave off the coast of Africa
02:20 does have a high risk of development potential.
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