It will be a stormy weekend across the southeastern United States as a surge of tropical moisture fuels heavy rain and severe thunderstorms.
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00:00 Taking a look across your Florida cities today,
00:02 you might be saying, huh?
00:04 This doesn't seem all that bad.
00:06 I mean clouds in Orlando and Tampa.
00:08 Quick shower in Jacksonville,
00:09 sunshine in Tallahassee temperatures
00:11 in the 60s and 70s.
00:12 But the problem with the forecast
00:14 in Florida today is right here.
00:16 Winds, winds, winds, winds, winds,
00:18 your speeds.
00:19 Remember speeds are the one minute
00:21 averages in the teens and 20s.
00:23 Daytona Beach 23 mile per hour wind
00:25 speed clocking in most recently.
00:26 We've got 17 on the board for West
00:29 Palm and 18 in Miami and I'll tell
00:31 you this much.
00:32 Gusts are already up in the 30s and 40s today,
00:35 but that's only half of the wind
00:36 problem on this Friday here.
00:38 The other half is that these strong winds.
00:40 This Northeast wind is very persistent,
00:42 so much so in fact that we actually
00:44 saw some of the water being pushed
00:46 out of Tampa Bay yesterday.
00:48 That's a phenomenon that we
00:49 generally see with tropical cyclones.
00:51 I'm talking hurricanes,
00:52 tropical storms,
00:52 once in awhile,
00:53 tropical depression.
00:54 So I think that's put some perspective.
00:56 Just how strong and again how
00:58 persistent the winds really are.
00:59 Now the other problem with that is up
01:01 and down the East Coast of Florida
01:03 through Georgia in the Carolinas.
01:04 You can see we've highlighted the area in red.
01:07 That's where we're concerned about the
01:09 effects of let's say rip currents.
01:10 For example, really rough surf.
01:12 We've seen some nasty white caps
01:13 out on some of our Florida beaches,
01:15 and even as you're getting out,
01:16 let's say to the North Carolina coast,
01:18 which is very fragile once you
01:20 get toward the Outer Banks.
01:21 That's where we could see some coastal erosion.
01:23 Please be careful as we move through today,
01:25 and no,
01:26 it's not a good day to be out on the water,
01:28 but remember that my friends that was
01:29 the appetizer before a five course dinner.
01:31 Now we have a storm moving in from the
01:33 plains this storm right here.
01:35 We've been tracking this for a couple of days.
01:37 This is going to come through the Gulf,
01:39 pick up a ton of Gulf moisture and
01:41 basically just drop it all on Florida.
01:42 So not only is today a bad day,
01:44 but honestly,
01:45 this weekend kind of stinks too.
01:46 In Florida,
01:47 I'm sorry to say I don't want
01:48 to be the bearer of bad news,
01:50 but Mother Nature is doing
01:51 what she's going to do here.
01:52 You'll notice 4 to 8 inches as we
01:54 look at the rain amounts from
01:55 Apalachicola back to Jacksonville.
01:57 We're looking down toward,
01:58 let's say Orlando down to Cocoa Beach,
01:59 Melbourne, Tampa, Miami.
02:00 I could just name a bunch of
02:02 your peninsula cities here,
02:03 but you get the picture.
02:04 This lighter green representing where
02:06 we have two to four inches of rain.
02:08 But wait, there's more rain and
02:09 flash flooding Saturday and Sunday.
02:11 That's just part of the equation
02:12 on Saturday afternoon and Saturday night.
02:14 We're also looking as this storm
02:16 moves through the sunshine state
02:17 for that severe weather potential.
02:19 We have two levels of risk.
02:21 The first here in yellow.
02:22 That's your some risk for spotty,
02:24 severe storms.
02:24 The second in orange,
02:26 is your moderate risk where more
02:27 numerous storms are possible.
02:29 Now we're looking at almost everything here.
02:31 This is a very saturated system,
02:32 so again,
02:33 flash flooding is a big concern,
02:35 but we could also see damaging
02:37 gusty winds and even some isolated
02:39 tornadoes not out of the question.
02:40 I'm sorry to say I don't want
02:42 to ruin your weekend plans here.
02:44 I don't want to be doing that,
02:46 but this just kind of is what it is,
02:48 and we want to prepare you ahead of time,
02:51 especially in terms of that severe weather.
02:53 Make sure you have the active
02:54 weather app. You can get those
02:56 watches and warnings right to the
02:57 palm of your hand. Just turn the
02:59 push notifications on for your location.
03:01 Weekend summary here from Jacksonville
03:02 to Tallahassee, Orlando, Tampa,
03:03 Miami. Not nice rain, thunderstorms.
03:04 Temperatures are fine.
03:05 60s and 70s.
03:06 That's not anything to write home about,
03:08 but it's the rest of the forecast.
03:10 It's bothersome now.
03:10 Thankfully,
03:11 after this storm leaves,
03:12 we do get a nice break here.
03:14 You can see Monday and Tuesday in Orlando.
03:16 We're right back to sunshine and we
03:18 eventually warm up after a quick burst
03:20 of the 50s back to the 60s and 70s.
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