00:00Let's take you into the Pacific right now and here we have Kiko. Kiko is a tropical storm. Just for perspective we have Mexico and as we take a look at the future of Kiko we have some concerns. We have some concerns about this storm getting closer to Hawaii. So it's on a trajectory to move closer to Hawaii. Now it's still way way out there. But when we begin to see a storm get closer to 20 degrees north latitude in the Pacific with a westward trajectory again more than a week from now.
00:28We'll have to keep an eye out for areas around Hawaii just to see again over the next week we're going to have a better handle on if that storm will get closer to threatening Hawaii. Not yet anything that we need to really batten down the hatches for but just something to keep in your mind for next week we could see impacts in Hawaii from Kiko.
00:46In the Atlantic Basin we don't have anything going on regarding a named storm on this Labor Day and that was also the case last year. Labor Day of 2024 was also storm free. This is typically a very busy time of the year so it's very fortunate that we're dealing with back to back years 2024 and 2025 with no Labor Day storms.
01:07Last time we had Labor Day without a storm named anywhere in the Atlantic Basin in consecutive years was 1991 to 1992. We've had a lot of dry air. This has been the biggest hurdle for any storms and the biggest protection for us lately. Dry dusty air. It's more like an early to mid July pattern in the Atlantic at least for now.
01:24But that's going to begin to break down. So here we have an orange bubble here. A moderate chance of development with this tropical wave and as we watch this develop later this weekend to this coming weekend a medium chance of development because that dry air is going to gradually begin to give way to increasing amounts of moisture and again a bit more moisture will allow some of these tropical waves to hold together and perhaps even sustain themselves and strengthen in the weeks to come.
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