00:00You look at this overall radar view, this loop that we have at the beginning, it was a little bit unorganized, kind of hard to really make out.
00:06But you can see at the end of this loop, it's starting to become a lot more organized, and that is trending in the, that's been the trend here over the past couple of hours.
00:15Now, Aaron has sustained winds of 50 miles an hour, getting closer and closer to transitioning from that tropical storm phase to the hurricane phase.
00:23Looks like that's going to happen early on Friday morning, so it looks like we might have another about 30 hours, 36 hours before that happens.
00:34Aaron will continue this westwardly track looking to become a hurricane early Friday morning, and then after that, it looks like it's going to start to make a northern track shift, take a little bit of a right turn there right around Puerto Rico.
00:47And around that time, it also looks like it's going to strengthen to a major Category 3 hurricane there as we head into the weekend.
00:54It looks like Sunday is when that is going to happen, so heads up for that.
00:57We're going to be tracking the latest.
00:58As far as any impacts from Aaron of what we are going to be watching out for, the most impacts will be felt by Bermuda and Puerto Rico.
01:06That's where we're going to have a high risk there for both rain and wind.
01:10Now, for the east coast of the U.S., even parts of the Gulf will be watching out for a low threat, but some pockets, some areas along the coastal areas, including the Virginia and North Carolina coast and the Maritime Canadian coast, will see an elevated medium threat for tropical rain and wind damage here on that impact risk scale.
01:30Now, dangerous seas and rip currents will be possible pretty much across the entire east coast of the United States and Canada here as we head throughout the 18th through the 22nd.
01:39So we're talking late this weekend into early parts of next week.
01:42As far as the weekend goes, the main impacts are going to be felt here, stretching from the Leeward Islands, Puerto Rico, all the way through the Bahamas.
01:49This is where we're going to see, once again, high swells, dangerous rip currents will be possible here as we head into early parts of next week.
01:57So that Bermuda High is what's mainly steering Aaron right now, and the location of that high is causing these steering winds to go pretty much from east to west, almost directly, which is exactly why Aaron has taken that same directional path.
02:14So we're going to continue to watch this and keep you up to date.
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