Hey everyone, I'm WFA Meteorologist Kyle
Roberts coming to you from Dallas, TX.
I want to bring you the latest on
what is now Tropical Storm Hillary
and also the tropics in the Atlantic.
Starting to get pretty active
as well right now.
Hillary, a tropical storm moving through
portions of Southern California.
Officially the center still down
over a Baja at the moment,
but the bulk of the rain has now
moved into South Southern California.
Tremendous amounts of heavy rain falling
in a Southern California as well as
portions of a Nevada and even some
heavy downpours happening in Arizona as well.
It's still a tropical storm,
wind speeds of 60 miles an hour,
wind gusts to 70,
but it really has weakened a lot in
terms of intensity at this point.
Yesterday it was still a category
two hurricane.
Now it's down to a tropical storm,
but that doesn't lessen the intensity,
at least in terms of rainfall.
Still tons of rain headed to
Southern California and also the
portions of the desert Southwest
going to lead to flash flooding,
going to lead to mudslide and landslides.
And those gusty winds could lead to
some power outages and places as well.
So the track of the storms
going to basically move right
up through Southern California,
almost right on top of Barstow.
Still maybe a tropical storm as it
enters the Sierra there as we head into
late tonight and into early Monday.
That's why tropical storm warnings
remain for the greater LA area
also in and around San Diego.
As we talked about heavy rain and
flooding potentially in those areas,
especially in the mountainous
areas outside of LA and San Diego,
landslides and mudslide and
strong wind gusts as well.
In fact, if we get to significant flooding,
there certainly could be some
communities that are cut off from
resources or from emergency services
with that heavy rain flooding,
landslide mud slide.
So serious situation unfolding in
portions of Southern California
with the rain storm will continue
to move off to the north as we
head into the day on Monday,
quickly moving up to kind of the Nevada,
Oregon of Idaho line by Monday afternoon.
So the good news is this thing
will be moving rather quickly,
but the bulk of that rain especially
in California going to fall
through the rest of the day today.
This will be Sunday and into Monday as
well before things start to dry out.
In fact, flash flood to me.
Flood watches anywhere from the Mexico
border almost all the way up to Canada.
This includes a good part of California,
almost all Nevada, portions of Utah,
portions of Arizona, Idaho,
Oregon, all under flood watches.
Basically,
that means that flash flooding or
flooding is possible with repeated
rounds of rain and the heavy rain
that's going to fall in portions
of these portions of these areas.
And as we've been talking about,
there's some places,
especially in California,
especially in places in Nevada,
where they could end up with a year's
worth of rain in the next 24 to 48 hours.
So here's what the storm looks like
as we head through the remainder
of Sunday and into Monday.
Sunday night still heavily
raining in portions of California.
But tonight and into Monday,
California should start to dry
out before everything starts to
shift into Northern California,
northern portions of Nevada,
And by Monday afternoon into the evening,
there could still be some
lingering rain here or there,
but nothing like what those areas have been
dealing with over the last 24 hours or so.
So things should start to improve
during the day on Monday and
especially Monday night into Tuesday.
There could be some lingering rain here or
there, but nothing like what's ongoing.
Currently heavy rain is falling.
So this is an additional rainfall of maybe
6 to 10 inches in the mountainous areas,
4 to 6 inches and portions of the Sahara,
maybe the Mojave area also up in the Nevada,
one to three to four to six
inches depending on the locations.
Arizona, Utah going to see multiple
inches of rain as well.
Even places like San Francisco actually
could see a little rain from this
system as it moves off to the north.
But that's not the only tropical
activity we're watching as well.
Remember that's in the Pacific.
We're also watching tropical
activity in the Atlantic right now.
In fact,
things have gotten rather active.
We have three storms out there at the moment.
We have Franklin,
we have which is a tropical
storm in the Caribbean.
We have tropical depression number
six and then we also have Emily,
which is a tropical storm out
in the UP to Atlantic.
And then we're also watching an
area off the coast of the Africa
that could become a system in the
next five to seven days or so.
And there's also a disturbance moving
into the Gulf of Mexico that could
become a tropical depression or tropical
storm over the next couple of days as well.
The active storms that we
have ongoing at the moment,
as we mentioned Emily,
tropical depression number six in Franklin,
those will all not be a threat to the US
It looks like Emily's going to kind of
curve back out into the open Atlantic.
Franklin may move across Hispaniola which
is a Dominican Republic and Haiti as a
tropical storm bring some heavy rain,
gusty winds of those areas as it
moves back out into the open Atlantic.
It could become a hurricane and may
eventually threaten Bermuda down the road.
But as of now kind of curves back
out into the open Atlantic and then
tropical depression number six
actually is going to fall apart here
probably the next 24 to 48 hours.
So not going to be a concern both
of these storms,
not a threat to the US that one in the
Gulf could become a tropical depression
and move into southern portions
of Texas or northern Mexico could
bring a little rain to those areas.
But immediate threats as far as
significant tropical weather with
hurricanes or major hurricanes,
anything like that doesn't look to be
anytime soon for the US but of course,
we'll be watching all this very,
very closely, not only what's
left with Hillary but also what's
going on in the Atlantic as well.
Thanks for watching this afternoon
and have a good one everybody.