00:00We have our eyes on two separate areas in the Caribbean and the area around the Caribbean.
00:05That's right. Watching out for possibly our next named storm here as we head into the weekend. So
00:08let's go and get right into the latest here. Here's a quick look at our hurricane calendar
00:13here. And as you can see, even though we are past our statistical peak of September 10th,
00:18and yes, we are on a downward trend right from that statistical peak. But I do want to point
00:23out that we are in this current area that's circled. This is the part of the calendar
00:27that we are in. And I still want to point out that we are still in a very active
00:31named storm and hurricane season here for us. In fact, we're akin to where we would be in
00:37mid to late August. And in that time period, you definitely wouldn't let your guard down for any
00:41tropical activity. So don't let your guard down now, because as you can see, we still have at
00:45least 25% of our hurricane season, our tropical storm season to go here as we head throughout
00:52October, even into late parts of November. That's when we still see the hurricane season
00:57continuing. And speaking of that, Jeff was talking about the two areas we're tracking.
01:00The first one is going to be here south of Cuba. This is going to be for tomorrow,
01:04Friday and Saturday. Any storms that form in this area will be capable of quickly and explosively
01:10developing. And some of these storms could impact portions of Florida as we head into early parts
01:15of next week. Now, the good news is we have this area of high pressure that is rotating counter
01:20clockwise, and that's pretty much going to block any type of development here from moving in. It'll
01:25either deflect these storms off to the west into Mexico, or it's going to deflect these storms off
01:30to the northeast here into the Atlantic. But once again, this area does not include central and
01:35southern parts of Florida. So we could see some development down there here as we head into early
01:39parts of next week. The other area we are watching is going to be this tropical rainstorm continuing
01:44across the Atlantic. Right now, it's not named. However, as we head into late Friday into early
01:49Saturday, it does look like it will strengthen into a tropical storm. That's our latest projections
01:54here as you look at our exclusive AccuWeather eyepath. So once again, it does look like we're
01:58going to see our next named storm working its way towards the Leeward Islands and over towards Cuba
02:03and the overall impacts we are tracking Thursday night throughout the weekend and into Monday will
02:08primarily be north of Puerto Rico into Hispaniola. Some of these areas could see some heavy rainfall,
02:14some strong winds and some power outages. The overall impacts will be out in less than one
02:18of our AccuWeather real impact scale rainfall. We could see some areas seeing widespread four
02:23to eight inches of rain with our AccuWeather local storm max of 20 inches and offshore winds, Jeff,
02:29could climb as high as 90 miles an hour. So we will be watching this very close here as we head
02:34into next week.
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