Stormy, Hot & Tracking The Tropics
MIAMI (CBS4) – South Florida's stormy weather is expected to continue Friday. CBS4 meteorologist Lissette Gonzalez said it's because of a trough of low pressure to our north, plenty of available moisture and a southerly wind flow.
Most of the storms will likely fire up across the interior and across the western suburbs of Broward and Miami-Dade, but scattered storms will move across the metro areas as well.
Some of the storms may be slow moving and may produce dangerous lightning, gusty winds and heavy downpours in spots. The rain chance slightly decreases this weekend as the trough of low pressure lifts to the north and winds flow out of the southeast to bring us more of our typical afternoon storms.
With more sunshine in the forecast, that also means temperatures will be heating up to the low 90s and it will feel like the 100s due to the humidity.
Meantime, the CBS4 Storm Team is also tracking 3 areas in the tropics.
The most vigorous wave is an area of low pressure located about 1175 miles east of the Northern Leeward Islands and has a 40-percent chance of developing into a Tropical cyclone according to the Hurricane Center as it moves towards the west-northwestward at near 20 miles-per-hour.
Showers and storms have become better organized with this system and environmental conditions appear favorable for strengthening.
The second wave is a broad area of low pressure about 450 miles southwest of the Southern Cape Verde islands moving westward at 15 to 20 miles per hour.
The Hurricane center says this disturbance has a 40-percent chance of developing into a Tropical cyclone.
The third wave is broad area of low pressure about 700 miles northeast of the Northern Leeward Islands with a low potential (20% chance) of developing. Slow development is possible with this disturbance over the next couple of days as it moves west-southwestward at about 10 miles per hour. These waves are still very far away from South Florida, so we have plenty of time to watch them.
The names of the next four storms should they develop are Franklin, Gert, Harvey and Irene.
