Everybody’s watching Tropical Storm Fay
Everybody’s watching Tropical Storm Fay this morning as the big blow heads north across Cuba and draws a bead on South Florida. The center of the forecast track probabilities runs straight up the west coast of Florida. Forecasters have her reaching hurricane strength briefly before moving inland and weakening.
First of all, it’s not a Hurricane (at least not yet); just a Tropical Storm. It’s projected path takes it to the west coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. Eventually it will take a turn back to the east - back out to the Atlantic where it will die out. If it cuts across the Tampa area in a north-east direction, that would put it toward Orlando. It may or may not be a Hurricane at that point. It’s too early to tell or project it out that far. South Florida will definitely be effected tomorrow, tomorrow night and Tuesday morning probably.
“Instead of taking the storm further out into the Gulf of Mexico, now it looks like Fay will be coming closer to Central Florida,” Local 6’s Rob Eicher said. “It looks like it will come through western sections of Central Florida as a strong tropical storm or weak hurricane during the day on Tuesday and during the early part of the day on Wednesday.”
According to NOAA today it is only going to be a tropical storm. It looks like it might hit Tampa as a hurricane, but only for a short while. It changes all the time.
First of all, it’s not a Hurricane (at least not yet); just a Tropical Storm. It’s projected path takes it to the west coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico. Eventually it will take a turn back to the east - back out to the Atlantic where it will die out. If it cuts across the Tampa area in a north-east direction, that would put it toward Orlando. It may or may not be a Hurricane at that point. It’s too early to tell or project it out that far. South Florida will definitely be effected tomorrow, tomorrow night and Tuesday morning probably.
Residents of western Cuba, Florida and the Florida Keys should monitor Fay’s progress, the hurricane center said. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist pre-emptively declared a state of emergency Saturday, and told reporters he had partially activated the state emergency management office. He urged Floridians to ready themselves for the storm.
This graphic shows an approximate representation of coastal areas under a hurricane warning (red), hurricane watch (pink), tropical storm warning (blue) and tropical storm watch (purple). The orange circle indicates the current position of the center of the tropical cyclone.
The black line and dots show the National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecast track of the center at the times indicated. The dot indicating the forecast center location will be black if the cyclone is forecast to be tropical and will be white with a black outline if the cyclone is forecast to be extratropical.
If only an L is displayed, then the system is forecast to be a remnant low. The letter inside the dot indicates the NHC’s forecast intensity for that time. This is an image of the tropical storm Edouard.
