Tropical Storm Jerry to become hurricane
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Jerry is zipping across the Atlantic at breakneck speed. Here’s where the future hurricane is headed
Tropical Storm Jerry formed over the central Atlantic Ocean Tuesday and is expected to strengthen into a hurricane this week.
Michael Lowry, a Miami-based hurricane specialist, said La Niña tends to bring its greatest impacts to the western half of the Atlantic, including the Gulf and Caribbean Sea. He said those regions are already seeing the lessened wind shear and other conditions characteristic of La Niña.
A disturbance off Central America has been highlighted for the possibility of tropical development as it moves into the Gulf of America this week.
The hurricane center on Thursday said an area of low pressure could develop along an old frontal boundary in the western Atlantic near Florida’s east coast in the next few days. That disturbance could then track to the northwest, which would take it across the Florida peninsula and into the Gulf.
Hurricane forecasters highlighted two new disturbances in the Atlantic Ocean Thursday morning, including a potential area of low pressure that could bring rain to the Gulf Coast. The low-pressure system could form in the next couple of days near southern Florida, forecasters with the National Hurricane Center in Miami said at 7 a.m. Thursday.
After nine consecutive years with at least one major hurricane landfall on the Gulf Coast, in 2025 is hurricane season cancelled?
There haven't been any tropical systems in the Gulf or Caribbean since June 30. That could change in these final two months of the hurricane season.
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Talking the Tropics w/Mike: Jerry turning more northwest... low pressure east of Fl. develops Fri.
Tropics threats/impacts for Jacksonville/NE Florida/SE Georgia: Non-tropical or subtropical low pressure will develop east of Florida Friday then move northward over the far Western Atlantic & will help cause another round of strong onshore flow, gusty winds, flooding at times of high tide & some rain through Friday into Saturday.
INDIAN ROCKS BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The white sandy beaches along a swath of Florida’s Gulf Coast were battered by three hurricanes last year, leading to a multimillion-dollar effort to repair a coastline that is the region’s economic engine.
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