(KMDL-FM) Persons with interests along the northern Gulf Coast from Louisiana through Mississippi, Alabama, and the Florida Panhandle should be keeping up with the latest forecasts from local media and the National Hurricane Center regarding an area of disturbed weather that could now affect the coastlines of all four states.
As of early Saturday morning, the National Hurricane Center was monitoring an area of disturbed weather and an upper-level low-pressure system centered in the northeastern Gulf. This area of disturbed weather was producing showers and storms along the coast this morning.
Potential Tropical Development Near Louisiana Coast
The current track guidance suggests the weather system will continue a northerly or northwesterly motion very slowly over the next several days. This motion would bring more of Louisiana’s coastline into play. But the effects, if any, would still be several days away.
The intensity forecast from the National Hurricane Center does not suggest any rapid strengthening at all. Some tropical systems, when allowed to sit over the warm waters of the Gulf, can intensify rapidly, but that is not anticipated by forecasters at this time.
As of now, forecasters give the system a 30% chance of strengthening over the next seven days. That, combined with the system’s proximity to the coastline, seems to suggest that as a weathermaker, this system will be more of a shower and thundershower producer…