Hurricane watchers say Storm Nadine is ‘showing signs of life’ in new radar images
A storm brewing in the Atlantic Ocean that could be named Nadine is “showing some signs of life” on new radar images.
Footage from what is formally known as ‘Invest AL94’ shows the weather event producing winds of 45 kilometers per hour in the North Atlantic basin.
The National Hurricane Center (NHC) released its latest outlook on Wednesday, giving 94L a 30 percent chance of developing into Tropical Storm Nadine in the next 48 hours and a 40 percent chance in seven days.
There is a 30 percent chance that Nadine will become a tropical storm in the next 48 hours and a 10 percent chance that Oscar will reach tropical storm level in that same time frame
CBS meteorologist Joe Ruch said Nadine “showed some signs of life” when radar captured it spinning in the open ocean earlier this week, but the latest model shows it may be gaining strength.
“This system is forecast to move generally westward to west-northwestward, and environmental conditions appear marginally conducive to gradual development during the latter part of this week,” the NHC said in a report. report.
The storm’s wind speeds have not yet reached the speed necessary to be labeled a depression or tropical storm, and for the storm the speed exceeds 60 kilometers per hour.
And to reach hurricane status, wind speeds of more than 120 kilometers per hour are required.
Potential Nadine, however, is gaining enough momentum for AccuWeather to put the Caribbean on high alert Tuesday evening.
The forecaster predicted that the Invest A94L could bring between 10 and 20 centimeters of rain, with the extreme models bringing up to 20 centimeters.
“The heaviest rain is expected over Hispaniola’s rugged terrain, where life-threatening mudslides could occur,” the forecaster said.
The storm will also bring tropical storm force winds that could reach 40 miles per hour, with a maximum of 90 miles per hour.
Experts remain optimistic that this will not impact the Sunshine State, but warned that the tropical rain storm’s onshore winds should “produce rough surf, rip currents and coastal flooding along the Atlantic Coast, from the Florida Keys and South Florida to the coast of Georgia.”
Two storms are crossing the Atlantic Ocean and meteorologists are monitoring them in case they become a tropical storm or tropical depression
AccuWeather forecasters issued the warning on Tuesday, showing that the system’s tropical eye could bring “life-threatening” mudslides to Puerto Rico and cause power outages in the Dominic Republic.
However, the storm will have to develop into a tropical depression or tropical storm before bad weather can come to Florida.
A spaghetti model – so called because the lines resemble strands of pasta – showed the storm was likely to pass north of Antigua and Barbuda and towards the Dominican Republic and the southeastern tip of Cuba, where models show the storm moving southwest towards Jamaica.
While the model currently doesn’t have a direct line to Florida, this could change in the coming days as meteorologists say the Sunshine State is a “possibility.”
AccuWeather’s chief hurricane forecaster Alex DaSilva said, “One possibility would take the system westward into Central America and southern Mexico, and the other is unfortunately toward Florida.”
“It’s usually very difficult for a tropical system to move northwest and into Texas this late in the season because of the prevailing westerly winds in that area.”