Landfall will occur Wednesday somewhere between Vermillion Bay, LA and Destin, FL. Impacts will felt across a wide area, far away from where the center makes landfall, including much of the Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle and into inland sections of Alabama and Mississippi.
There will be a few peeks of sunshine as we go through the afternoon, but skies should remain mostly cloudy.
Zeta will bring winds, surge, and heavy rains to the Gulf Coast, and on the current NHC track, could spread tropical storm force winds and heavy rains into Central Alabama Wednesday night and early Thursday.
Tropical Storm Zeta, with winds of 40 mph this morning, is expected to become a hurricane by tomorrow night as it moves over the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula. Then, it weakens into a tropical storm Wednesday as it approaches the Central Gulf Coast due to cooler water and strong winds aloft. Some notes concerning […]
Tropical Depression 28 in the western Caribbean will move into the southern Gulf of Mexico Monday night and will affect the northern Gulf Coast late Wednesday as a tropical storm.
Many of us have seen a nice, soaking rain through the morning hours, but as we head through the afternoon hours, the rain and storms will continue to push east, and we will see the rain taper off from west to east through the evening.
Showers and thunderstorms can be expected through the day today as a cold front moves through the area, while Sunday will be dry with mostly cloudy skies. We’re also watching a disturbance in the tropics that has the potential to bring more rain to the area during the workweek.
At 4:48 am, we have a good bit of shower and thunderstorm activity mainly along and west of the I-59 corridor as the cold front is making its way across the northwestern part of North/Central Alabama.
As of 8:10 pm, we have a batch of hefty thunderstorms over the extreme northwestern parts of Central Alabama and into the western parts of North Alabama.
Strong storms over Northeast Mississippi are moving into Northwest and West Central Alabama at this hour.
All eyes are on the western Caribbean where a tropical depression could form with the next 24 hours that would move into the Gulf of Mexico early next week.
At 250 PM CDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Trinity, moving east at 20 mph.
James Spann
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