Meteorologist April Loveland's First Warning Forecast
Clouds will continue to build in Thursday and winds will kick up (NE 10 to 20, gusts to 30). Highs will return to the low 70s. Showers will start to build in later in the day. The biggest rain chance will be overnight.
Friday will be our first messy day as the remnants of Hurricane Ian move up the East Coast. Expect cloudy skies with on and off showers and storms. Some storms could be strong to severe, biggest severe threat in NC. It will be windy Friday with NE winds at 15 to 25 and gusts to 35 mph.
The leftovers of Ian will linger over the Mid-Atlantic this weekend. Expect mostly cloudy skies with rain Saturday and Sunday. It will be windy both days with E/NE wind at 10 to 20 mph. Persistent E/NE winds will trigger some coastal/tidal flooding. We could see 3” to 6” of rainfall over the next several days.
Tropical Update:
Hurricane Ian is continuing to weaken, now a Category 1 hurricane with 90 MPH sustained winds. It's located 70 miles south of Orlando, Florida and is traveling north-northeast at 8 MPH. Ian is forecast to track over Orlando and continue to move toward Daytona Beach, eventually weakening into a tropical storm. Then, it's forecast to travel into the Atlantic and turn back to the U.S., making landfall again near the Georgia/South Carolina border Friday afternoon. It's forecast to travel north-northwest before its remnants get pushed back east in our direction. Locally, we will see very strong east-northeast winds 25-35 MPH, minor to moderate tidal flooding, waves of rain dumping 3-6" of rainfall, and up to 10 feet waves in the Atlantic. Local impacts from Ian will be felt from late Thursday into early Tuesday. A Tropical Storm Warning has been extended northward to Surf City, North Carolina. A Tropical Storm Watch has been issued from north of Surf City to Cape Lookout, North Carolina.
Tropical Depression Eleven is moving north-northwest at 10 MPH. It has 35 MPH sustained winds and is located 710 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands. Tropical Depression Eleven is forecast to strengthen into Tropical Storm Julia later this evening. It will continue to track northward into the middle of the Atlantic, posing no threat to land.
Meteorologist April Loveland
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