Tropical Depression Eight will bring Tropical Storm conditions to the North Carolina Outer Banks on Tuesday.
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All of this just becomes at a good time to review our preparedness with making sure we have our hurricane emergency supplies of canned foods, manual can opener, bottled water and a recommended one gallon of water per person per day for at least three days, in addition to flash lights with extra batteries, our medicines, our auto filled up with gas and other supplies to sustain our families and businesses, in case power is interrupted from an approaching storm.
(RNN) – The National Hurricane Center is predicting Tropical Depression 9 will become a tropical storm on Tuesday. But this time the news is good for our area as it is expected to remain well to our east and should have no impact here in Southwest Louisiana. It was about 630 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii. Gaston is stationary and some weakening expected during the next 48 hours.
The second depression was about 240 miles west of Key West, Florida, with maximum winds of 35 mph.
Tropical storm watches were in effect for the coast of North Carolina from Cape Lookout to Oregon Inlet, and more watches could be coming later today, the hurricane center said.
“Total rain accumulations of 3 to 7 inches are possible over much of the Florida peninsula through Thursday”.
After tracking Disturbance 99L across the Atlantic & Caribbean for more than a week, the system was finally upgraded to Tropical Depression #9 Sunday afternoon between the Florida Keys and Cuba.
Forecasters say a tropical depression has formed in the Atlantic west of Bermuda, bringing the possibility of heavy rain to the coast of North Carolina early this week. The storm is moving slowly westward and could effect the east coast with downpours and gusty winds.
That tropical depression was expected to become a tropical storm on Tuesday, the NHC said in its advisory late on Monday.
Satellite Imagery of Hurricane Gaston in the open Atlantic. It is not expected to become a hurricane through as wind shear will increase as it nears landfall by the end of the week. Gaston was moving at about 8 miles per hour (13 kph).
The strongest storm now in the Atlantic Ocean, Hurricane Gaston, poses no threat to land.
The forecast track has the storm coming up from the Gulf of Mexico and moving close to the Coastal Empire and Lowcountry later this week.
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Forecasters say Gaston should slow down during the next day or so and turn northward on Monday.
