Are new storms brewing in the tropics? Or do we get a break? What the forecast says
Ian is gone. Julia has moved on.
So what’s left in the tropics?
This is what the National Hurricane Center has to say: “ Tropical cyclone formation is not expected during the next five days” for the North Atlantic, Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.
Time to exhale?
You can take your eye off the hurricane map this week, but we still have plenty of storm season left to go. The Atlantic hurricane season ends Nov. 30, and some of our most destructive storms have paid us October visits.
“With two full months left in the Atlantic hurricane season, now is not time for people to let their guard down,” Jasmine Blackwell, a spokeswoman for the National Weather Service, told the Miami Herald last week.
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Of course we can’t forget what Hurricane Ian did to Southwest Florida in late September, and the flooding and mudslides that Julia is bringing to Central America and southern Mexico through Tuesday.
In South Florida, the rain and flooding alerts over the weekend have disappeared, and drier weather arrived on Monday. But the rain chance jumps to 50 percent on Wednesday and 60 percent on Thursday.
But all is quiet on the tropical storm map this week. So you can exhale. For now.
This story was originally published October 10, 2022 at 7:56 AM.
