A disturbance is brewing in the Caribbean, well off from the U.S. mainland, but it may have adverse affects on the Peach State.
Water sea-surface temperature are 87 degrees, ripe for what is just a tropical rainstorm to become a major hurricane over the next several days.
Despite being unnamed and undeveloped, hurricane experts are predicting the likely-to-be-named Helene will make landfall in Florida’s Big Bend Thursday as a Category 2 hurricane and want people to prepare now.
“Now is the time to start preparing for a hurricane landfall along the Gulf Coast. Don’t wait for this storm to be officially named,” warned AccuWeather Chief Meteorologist Jon Porter in an email Sunday evening.
“Once it forms a circulation it could be off to the races,” AccuWeather Hurricane expert Alex DaSilva said in a news conference Monday morning. “We are very concerned about rapid intensification.”
The National Hurricane Center’s Atlantic Tropical Weather Outlook said this storm will move northwest and has an 80% chance of forming into a hurricane in the next 48 hours, and a 90% chance of forming in the next seven days.