The last hurricane to traverse the gulf waters was Ingrid, which made landfall in Mexico as a tropical storm, in September 2013.
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The Honolulu Department of Emergency Management says the city’s sewer flows will be monitored.
Javier will weaken to a tropical depression at midweek, but there can still be localized flooding downpours from the northern Baja California Sur to the Four Corners region of the United States as its moisture is drawn northward. The hurricane center said any development would be slow and put the chances of it becoming a tropical depression or storm over the next five days at 20 percent.
The Slidell forecasters decided against issuing a heat advisory for Sunday, as few locations on Saturday saw heat index readings higher than 108 degrees, which is the trigger for an advisory.
With the front still nearby on Monday, we’ll continue through a bit of unsettled period as afternoon and evening storm chances will stay elevated to start off the work week.
For our part of southeast Louisiana, It could bring 2-6 inches of rain over the course of the week.
The National Hurricane Center has lowered the probability of development in an area of low pressure in the northeast Gulf of Mexico, off the Florida panhandle. However, as illustrated by Hurricane Pali, which became the earliest Central Pacific tropical cyclone to form on record, the formation of tropical cyclones are possible at any time of the year. The storm was moving west-northwest at about 10 miles per hour.
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The storm was packing maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour (75 km/h) with higher gusts and was expected to dump four to six inches of rain in western Mexico, it said.
