BREAKING NEWS: The National Hurricane Center (NHC)
has begun posting advisories on Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine,
which will likely become Tropical Storm Helene later today or tonight.
Big Picture: Tropical Storm Helene will likely form in the NW
Caribbean later today or tonight,
then strengthen to a hurricane as it approaches an area from the
Florida Panhandle through West Central Florida on Thursday.
Helene could intensify to a category 2 or 3
hurricane that will likely produce a large wind field,
and inflict wind, storm surge and rainfall impacts to a broad area of
Florida, Georgia and South Carolina.
In Detail:
1. The National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecasts
an area of disorganized thunderstorms
to become better organized and form a center of circulation in the
NW Caribbean Sea later today or tonight.
The storm would likely be named
Helene, and is forecast to track through the Yucatan Channel,
then become a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.
