Right now at five, we want to waste no time
getting you caught up on the tropics.
We expect what you see here,
this disturbance, to form into Tropical Storm Debbie by tomorrow.
I'm Darlene Jones. And I'm Martha Sagowski.
You can see the system behind us right here.
We have tropical storm advisories for part of the West
Coast and Central Florida.
South Florida certified chief Meteorologist Tom Terry live in Severe
Weather Center 9.
Tom, you're actually going through that 5:00 PM advisory of
this system.
What's the latest? Yeah, right now,
it's still disorganized. It's still basically.
Over southern Cuba, and as long as it's over land,
it's not going to have much of a chance to
get organized.
But it does have a broad circulation.
And by tomorrow we'll get over here in the Florida
Keys area and have a chance to get over that
warm water and get a little bit better organized.
We have it in our favor right now that the
storm is so broad and disorganized.
It's not like this was an organized hurricane and now
it's weaker and now we expect to get back over
water.
This thing hasn't really had any organization at all,
so it has to really pull its bootstraps up and
start from the scratch with this storm,
so. Saturday afternoon, tropical depression,
tropical storm by Sunday morning and then getting close to
our West Coast as a intensifying tropical storm.
Cannot rule out the fact this could become a hurricane.
But it has so little organization now.
Like I said, it has a lot of work to
do to to get there.
But this is Sunday, early morning.
We're going to take you through this again with future
track.
I'll zoom in a little more.
But generally Saturday looks to be a relatively normal day.
Sunday, we're going to have some issues.
Now. The track still is officially off the East Coast
or off.
West Coast rather and our forecast mall is a little
closer to Tampa along with the American GFS,
I might say. So there is some disparity here,
but the track generally is going to bring the worst
weather during the afternoon and evening on Sunday.
So ladies, we've had a lot of folks asking me.
I know you've been asking me personally.
Darlene's already been back here three times talking about weekend
plans.
So Saturday still relatively normal day,
trying to make sure you have your sandbags if you're
in the flood prone area.
Sunday that we're going to have some issues.
Get things done on Saturday.
Saturday is good. Sunday, if you got those birthday plans
and all these activities,
just be really careful. I don't want you out in
the middle of all this,
especially if it does get to be a little bit
stronger and perhaps a little bit closer to to the
West Coast.
And you don't want people on the roads either,
especially when you're talking about rain.
I think especially Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening.
We'll watch out for that flood potential as well,
alright.