Meteorologist April Loveland's First Warning Forecast
Mostly clear and mild overnight with lows near 70.
Fall arrives on Thursday, but it will be anything but fall-like as high temperatures soar to the low 90s. A cold front will move through which will bring us the chance for strong to severe storms. The Storm Prediction Center has the whole area under a level 1 for severe storms. The biggest threat will be damaging wind gusts and heavy rain.
We will get a breath of fresh air just in time to end the work week. Expect highs to plummet to the low 70s. It will also be on the windy side with wind gusts up to 30 mph possible.
Temperatures will warm to the mid 70s on Saturday and then the mid 80s on Sunday. Both days are looking mostly dry.
Tropical Update:
Fiona is moving toward the north near 10 mph. A north-northeastward or northeastward motion with an increase in forward speed is expected through Friday, followed by a somewhat slower northward motion beginning Friday night or Saturday. On the forecast track, the center of Fiona will pass just to the west of Bermuda Thursday night, approach Nova Scotia on Friday, and move across Nova Scotia and into the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Saturday.
Maximum sustained winds are near 130 mph with higher gusts. Fiona is a category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson
Hurricane Wind Scale. Little change in strength is expected through early Friday. Some weakening is expected to begin on Friday, but Fiona is forecast to still be producing hurricane-force winds Friday night and Saturday after it has become post-tropical.
Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 70 miles from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 205 miles.
Gaston is moving toward the northeast near 14 mph. A turn to the the east is expected on Thursday, and Gaston is expected to stall near the western Azores late this week.
Maximum sustained winds remain near 65 mph with higher gusts. Gradual weakening is expected over the next few days.
A tropical wave is producing shower and thunderstorm activity near the southern Windward Islands and over adjacent waters. The system continues to show signs of organization, and it will likely
become a tropical depression within the next couple of days. The disturbance is forecast to move west-northwestward across the southern Windward Islands today and then move toward the central Caribbean Sea later this week.
* Formation chance through 2 days: HIGH (70%)
* Formation chance through 5 days: HIGH (90%)
Meteorologist April Loveland
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