IF YOU THOUGHT WE WERE DONE TRACKING TROPICS THIS YEAR, THEN YOU NEED TO LISTEN TO THIS NEWS. SANIKA: KELLIANNE KLASS IS MONITORING INVEST 99-L RIGHT NOW. WE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HOW THE OFFICIAL END OF HURRICANE SEASON DOESN’T MEAN WE WON’T SEE ANYTHING. LET’S PUT PEOPLE’S MIND AT EASE. IS THERE DIRECT IMPACT TO US HERE? KELLIANNE: THERE’S NO DIRECT IMPACT TO FLORIDA. IT WILL MOVE UP THE ATLANTIC AND EVENTUALLY ENCOUNTER COOLER WATERS. IT COULD GAIN SOME TROPICAL OR EVEN SUBTROPICAL CHARACTERISTICS. BUT AS IT CONTINUES THAT NORTHEASTERLY MOVEMENT INTO THE NORTHERN ATLANTIC, IT WILL LOSE A LOT OF THOSE CHARACTERISTICS AS IT TAPS INTO COLDER WATERS. OF COURSE THIS DOESN’T HAPPEN EVERY SIGEL DAY. LAST TIME WE HAD A DECEMBER STORM WAS BACK IN 2013. TYPICALLY, THERE IS ONE STORM EVERY 15 YEARS. BUT IT JUST GOES TO SHOW YOU HOW WE CAN SEE STUFF POP UP IN THE TROPICS PAST HURRICANE SEASON. THINK FULLY, AGAIN, NOT EXPECTING IMPACTS ON FLORIDA OR THE UNITED S
Chances of improvement summation for tropical disturbance
The National Hurricane Center is tracking a tropical disturbance successful the cardinal Atlantic. As of Tuesday morning, the strategy has been fixed a 50% accidental of improvement successful the adjacent 5 days and 40% successful the adjacent 2 days.The strategy is located 800 miles northeast of the bluish Leeward Islands."Environmental conditions look conducive for this strategy to get immoderate subtropical oregon tropical characteristics portion it meanders mostly northeastward during the adjacent fewer days. By Friday, the debased is expected to determination implicit cooler waters and interact with a mid-latitude trough, limiting imaginable of tropical modulation aft that time," the NHC said. The past named tempest successful December was successful 2013.The archetypal 1 connected grounds was successful 1887, the twelvemonth determination were 2 named December storms.KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WATCH IS ISSUEDStay tuned to WESH 2 News, WESH.COM, oregon NOAA Weather Radio for tempest updates.Prepare to bring wrong immoderate tract furniture, outdoor decorations oregon ornaments, trash cans, hanging plants, and thing other that tin beryllium picked up by the wind.Understand hurricane forecast models and cones.Prepare to screen each windows of your home. If shutters person not been installed, usage precut plywood.Check batteries and banal up connected canned food, first-aid supplies, drinking water, and medications.The WESH 2 First Warning Weather Team recommends you person these items acceptable earlier the tempest strikes.Bottled water: One gallon of h2o per idiosyncratic per dayCanned nutrient and soup, specified arsenic beans and chiliCan opener for the cans without the easy-open lidsAssemble a first-aid kitTwo weeks' worthy of medicine medicationsBaby/children's needs, specified arsenic look and diapersFlashlight and batteriesBattery-operated upwind radioWHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WARNING IS ISSUEDListen to the proposal of section officials. If you are advised to evacuate, leave.Complete mentation activities.If you are not advised to evacuate, enactment indoors, distant from windows.Be alert for tornadoes. Tornadoes tin hap during a hurricane and aft it passes over. Remain indoors, successful the halfway of your home, successful a closet oregon bath without windows.HOW YOUR SMARTPHONE CAN HELP DURING A HURRICANEA smartphone tin beryllium your champion person successful a hurricane — with the close websites and apps, you tin crook it into a almighty instrumentality for guiding you done a storm’s approach, accomplishment and aftermath.Download the WESH 2 News app for iOS | AndroidEnable exigency alerts — if you person an iPhone, prime settings, past spell into notifications. From there, look for authorities alerts and alteration exigency alerts.If you person an Android phone, from the location leafage of the app, scroll to the close on the bottommost and click connected "settings." On the settings menu, click connected "severe upwind alerts." From the menu, prime from the astir severe, moderate-severe, oregon each alerts.PET AND ANIMAL SAFETYYour favored should beryllium a portion of your household plan. If you indispensable evacuate, the astir important happening you tin bash to support your pets is to evacuate them too. Leaving pets behind, adjacent if you effort to make a harmless abstraction for them, could effect successful wounded oregon death.Contact hotels and motels extracurricular of your contiguous country to spot if they instrumentality pets.Ask friends, relatives and others extracurricular of the affected country whether they could structure your animal.
ORLANDO, Fla. —
The National Hurricane Center is tracking a tropical disturbance successful the cardinal Atlantic.
As of Tuesday morning, the strategy has been fixed a 50% accidental of improvement successful the adjacent 5 days and 40% successful the adjacent 2 days.
The strategy is located 800 miles northeast of the bluish Leeward Islands.
"Environmental conditions look conducive for this strategy to get immoderate subtropical oregon tropical characteristics portion it meanders mostly northeastward during the adjacent fewer days. By Friday, the debased is expected to determination implicit cooler waters and interact with a mid-latitude trough, limiting imaginable of tropical modulation aft that time," the NHC said.
The past named tempest successful December was successful 2013.
The archetypal 1 connected grounds was successful 1887, the twelvemonth determination were 2 named December storms.
KNOW WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WATCH IS ISSUED
- Stay tuned to WESH 2 News, WESH.COM, oregon NOAA Weather Radio for tempest updates.
- Prepare to bring wrong immoderate tract furniture, outdoor decorations oregon ornaments, trash cans, hanging plants, and thing other that tin beryllium picked up by the wind.
- Understand hurricane forecast models and cones.
- Prepare to screen each windows of your home. If shutters person not been installed, usage precut plywood.
- Check batteries and banal up connected canned food, first-aid supplies, drinking water, and medications.
The WESH 2 First Warning Weather Team recommends you person these items acceptable earlier the tempest strikes.
- Bottled water: One gallon of h2o per idiosyncratic per day
- Canned nutrient and soup, specified arsenic beans and chili
- Can opener for the cans without the easy-open lids
- Assemble a first-aid kit
- Two weeks' worthy of medicine medications
- Baby/children's needs, specified arsenic look and diapers
- Flashlight and batteries
- Battery-operated upwind radio
WHAT TO DO WHEN A HURRICANE WARNING IS ISSUED
- Listen to the proposal of section officials. If you are advised to evacuate, leave.
- Complete mentation activities.
- If you are not advised to evacuate, enactment indoors, distant from windows.
- Be alert for tornadoes. Tornadoes tin hap during a hurricane and aft it passes over. Remain indoors, successful the halfway of your home, successful a closet oregon bath without windows.
HOW YOUR SMARTPHONE CAN HELP DURING A HURRICANE
A smartphone tin beryllium your champion person successful a hurricane — with the close websites and apps, you tin crook it into a almighty instrumentality for guiding you done a storm’s approach, accomplishment and aftermath.
Download the WESH 2 News app for iOS | Android
Enable exigency alerts — if you person an iPhone, prime settings, past spell into notifications. From there, look for authorities alerts and alteration exigency alerts.
If you person an Android phone, from the location leafage of the app, scroll to the close on the bottommost and click connected "settings." On the settings menu, click connected "severe upwind alerts." From the menu, prime from the astir severe, moderate-severe, oregon each alerts.
PET AND ANIMAL SAFETY
Your favored should beryllium a portion of your household plan. If you indispensable evacuate, the astir important happening you tin bash to support your pets is to evacuate them too. Leaving pets behind, adjacent if you effort to make a harmless abstraction for them, could effect successful wounded oregon death.
- Contact hotels and motels extracurricular of your contiguous country to spot if they instrumentality pets.
- Ask friends, relatives and others extracurricular of the affected country whether they could structure your animal.