00:00Almost directly west for a time, and then we begin to lift a little bit north of the islands.
00:05Overall, we've had a lot of dry air in its place, in its path,
00:08and you can see all this huge area of very dry, dusty Saharan air,
00:13resembling more of a July-like pattern, but that's going to give way to a little bit more moisture.
00:18And there's a high likelihood that between the 4th of September, which is Thursday, Friday, and Saturday,
00:24that we'll have a new tropical depression form out this way.
00:26But again, while we have dry air in place through Wednesday,
00:29we're going to see that kind of give way to an increasing trend of moisture next week.
00:35And that system is going to be gradually lifting a little bit north of the islands.
00:39We do not expect it to impact the east coast of the U.S.
00:41Now, here's Lorena, a tropical storm and Category 2 Hurricane Kiko in the East Pacific.
00:46These stories have a little more longevity.
00:48Kiko is a storm that we're going to be tracking for the next 7 to 10 days as it's moving west.
00:54It's only moving at 6 miles per hour, but it did become a Category 2 hurricane at 2 p.m. Pacific time, 11 a.m. Hawaiian Standard Time.
01:02That was 5 Eastern today.
01:05And over the next 7 days, we're going to be watching it get closer to Hawaii.
01:08So we expect Wednesday and Thursday of next week it to be very close to the islands,
01:13and we'll have some direct impacts there, most likely, in the middle of next week from Kiko.
01:19Lorena has a big storyline that we've been talking about impacting Texas this week.
01:24Now, this is going to be a Mexican tropical storm landfall, most likely,
01:28but it's going to send a lot of wind and rain into Mexico,
01:30and that rainfall is going to expand up into the southwest and eventually into the southern plains as well.
01:37So, again, 1 to 2 inches of rain in El Paso through Sunday from this one.
01:41So, again, 1 to 2 inches of rain in El Paso through Sunday from this one.
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