Concerns Rise Across Texas & Louisiana Coast for Future Tropical Storm/Hurricane Francine
09/09/24 7:08am ET
Good morning everyone. We have an unusually quiet stretch in the Northeast for this time of year as high pressure dominates the area, and protects us from any & every frontal system. Look for sunshine for the next 7 days, plus a warming trend into the 80’s all the way into and including the weekend.
High pressure dominates the Northeast, but remains a curse for the Southeast and Gulf Coast as a stationary front lingers with nowhere to go. This front is draped across the Southeast coast, into the Gulf Coast, and about to cause more problems for Texas & Louisiana.
We’ve noted this several times in the past few weeks that old fronts can help spawn and direct tropical systems; and this week will be the case for that argument. An old tropical wave interacting with the old stationary front, has helped invigorate a new wave of low pressure that has formed into a tropical depression. We are expecting this to form into Tropical Storm Francine, then possibly into a Hurricane before making landfall.