00:00into the Atlantic. Gabrielle is on the map. She's been with us for a couple days now.
00:04Yes, and it wasn't looking great, especially at the beginning of getting to that tropical
00:10storm status. It was one of those situations where you're kind of looking at satellite and
00:13we're like, okay, where's the tropical storm? But now you can very much see there's the tropical
00:19storm, right? A very clear center of circulation here. And we've been seeing signs that Gabrielle
00:23is starting to strengthen. However, maintaining that 50 mile per hour sustained wind speeds,
00:28which has really had since the beginning of its tropical storm status, just about moving to the
00:34west northwest a little bit slower than at some points, but it's starting to really overcome some
00:40of those factors that were limiting its ability to strengthen two things, dry air, wind shear. Let's
00:47talk about the dry air first. It's the yellows, the oranges, not really seeing the reds on water vapor
00:51right now, but we had the dry air from an area of low pressure kind of moving into the center of the
00:56storm system. That was kind of yesterday, the day before, but now the opposite is happening.
01:01The dry air, it's starting to move away from the storm system and it's allowing Gabrielle to start
01:06to show those signs of strengthening. But the other thing that's happening has to do with the wind
01:10shear. We've been really looking at a lot of dark purple on the map, right? Stronger wind shear.
01:15But you can see where we have that center of circulation. Now it's into the light purple and
01:18especially moving northwest and then eventually to the north. It's tracking a path right through the
01:24weak wind shear, right in between kind of areas of stronger wind shear. So that's why we take a look
01:30at our eye path, the track that we here at AccuWeather think that Gabrielle takes. We do get to hurricane
01:35status. We think actually Sunday morning, but each of these points is 24 hours out in the evening. 8 p.m.
01:41is our marker here throughout time. We do get to category two status. Now, like we said, no U.S.
01:47impacts, maybe a little bit of rough surf, maybe a little bit of increased rip current danger. But
01:52overall, it's Bermuda that will see any impacts kind of Sunday, Monday, maybe a little bit into
01:58Tuesday. We're talking stronger wind gusts, 40 up to 70 miles per hour. And then those coastal hazards,
02:03the rough seas, the rip currents, things like that. Now we're tracking two more tropical waves. We'll talk
02:08more about that coming up at 7 30.
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