Watching the Caribbean – WDSU New Orleans

Invest 99L is still a broad area of low pressure just south of Jamaica. Environmental conditions are mostly conducive for further development and a tropical depression or storm is expected to form later today or tonight as the system moves across the Caribbean. Air Force Reconnaissance aircraft is schedule to investigate the system this afternoon. The system is expected to enter the Gulf of Mexico Friday night.Besides Invest 99L, we are following a trough of low pressure over the central Atlantic well east of Bermuda that has a high chance of developing into a tropical system in the next 2 to 5 days.There is also a tropical wave over the central tropical Atlantic about 1000 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands that has a medium chance of developing into a tropical system in the next few days. Locally, expect mostly cloudy and humid conditions along with high rain chances today and through the weekend. Scattered to numerous rain and storms could bring excessive rainfall to SELA and the Mississippi Gulf Coast for the next several days.Thursday: Invest 99L is headed for the Gulf. Locally, expect a mostly cloudy, hot and humid day with a 70% chance of rain and storms and afternoon temperatures in the upper 80s to low 90s.Friday: A mostly cloudy and hot day with a 70% chance of rain and storms and afternoon temperatures in the mid 80s to low 90s.Saturday: A mostly cloudy and hot day with a 60 to 70% chance of rain and storms and afternoon temperatures in the mid 80s to low 90s.Sunday: A tropical system could be making landfall somewhere along the Louisiana coastline. Expect an overcast, windy and warm day with numerous showers and thunderstorms, power outages, flooding and afternoon temperatures in the mid 80s. Strong southerly winds could bring dangerous storm surge to SELA.Monday: A tropical system could be bringing numerous showers and thunderstorms, power outages, flooding and storm surge to SELA. Expect an overcast, warm and windy day with afternoon temperatures in the mid 80s.Tuesday: A mostly cloudy, warm, windy and humid day with a 60 to 70% chance of rain and storms and afternoon temperatures in the mid to upper 80s.Wednesday: A mostly cloudy, hot and breezy day with a 60% chance of rain and afternoon temperatures in the upper 80s to low 90s.

Invest 99L is still a broad area of low pressure just south of Jamaica. Environmental conditions are mostly conducive for further development and a tropical depression or storm is expected to form later today or tonight as the system moves across the Caribbean. Air Force Reconnaissance aircraft is schedule to investigate the system this afternoon. The system is expected to enter the Gulf of Mexico Friday night.

Besides Invest 99L, we are following a trough of low pressure over the central Atlantic well east of Bermuda that has a high chance of developing into a tropical system in the next 2 to 5 days.

There is also a tropical wave over the central tropical Atlantic about 1000 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands that has a medium chance of developing into a tropical system in the next few days.

Locally, expect mostly cloudy and humid conditions along with high rain chances today and through the weekend. Scattered to numerous rain and storms could bring excessive rainfall to SELA and the Mississippi Gulf Coast for the next several days.

Thursday: Invest 99L is headed for the Gulf. Locally, expect a mostly cloudy, hot and humid day with a 70% chance of rain and storms and afternoon temperatures in the upper 80s to low 90s.

Friday: A mostly cloudy and hot day with a 70% chance of rain and storms and afternoon temperatures in the mid 80s to low 90s.

Saturday: A mostly cloudy and hot day with a 60 to 70% chance of rain and storms and afternoon temperatures in the mid 80s to low 90s.

Sunday: A tropical system could be making landfall somewhere along the Louisiana coastline. Expect an overcast, windy and warm day with numerous showers and thunderstorms, power outages, flooding and afternoon temperatures in the mid 80s. Strong southerly winds could bring dangerous storm surge to SELA.

Monday: A tropical system could be bringing numerous showers and thunderstorms, power outages, flooding and storm surge to SELA. Expect an overcast, warm and windy day with afternoon temperatures in the mid 80s.

Tuesday: A mostly cloudy, warm, windy and humid day with a 60 to 70% chance of rain and storms and afternoon temperatures in the mid to upper 80s.

Wednesday: A mostly cloudy, hot and breezy day with a 60% chance of rain and afternoon temperatures in the upper 80s to low 90s.

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