unfortunately Claudia has said
that her parents jobs have
ruined her life. We are
tracking the tropics and today
one of the most powerful images
we’ve seen is coming to us from
on highway in New Orleans.
Parker parked along the feeder
or boat trailers rvs and other
vehicles that you can see here
all move there by their owners.
Ahead of tropical storm Marco
that is expected to hit later
on tonight we do want to bring
in meteorologist Justin
Stapleton has been tracking
both Marco and Laura. One
during the timing of these
Justin.
>> Well, Marco is likely going
to be making landfall sometime
later this evening possibly
overnight into early Wednesday,
as this storm has really
weakened considerably so it
really won’t be that big of an
issue I think a lot of other
prepping therefore is more
which is going to come in
possibly as a category 2
hurricane may be stronger than
that when it makes landfall
will get all those in the sack
forced one kind of give you the
idea of what we’ll see for this
afternoon, not only that just
got a word here from a reporter
over in Beaumont, saying that a
port Arthur mayor, few men
Bartee said they’re playing a
mandatory evacuation of the
city of Port Arthur beginning
tomorrow at 06:00AM and of
course we going to have
officials from Galveston
County. Give us an update later
on this afternoon around 3
o’clock so we’ll see how the
will sort of determine the next
2448 hours as we go through
right now those pretty quiet
outside got 87 degrees mostly
cloudy skies couple of low 90’s
sprinkled out there as well so
fairly comfortable afternoon
that Northeast wind is keeping
things in check in terms of the
oppressive miss of late August,
so our future cast is going to
look like this will keep it
fairly rain-free today so that
so that stuff down around the
coastline. There that’s
basically just being pulled in
from an upper level low over
into Mexico. That’s kind of
creating a little bit lift in
the atmosphere but it is going
to tomorrow’s forecast notice
the 90’s are back in here come
some of these scattered showers
and he’s going to some of the
leftovers of Marco will become
what we call remnant low at
that point it mainly just means
that we’ll see some of these
showers and thunderstorms drift
on true, not expect them to
help spark some additional ones
by tomorrow so this one was
talking about there’s the low
you can see the counter
clockwise swirl there in
northern Mexico into creating
this lift right around Corpus
Christi we’re getting some
thunderstorms starting to flare
there of keep watch on that for
some of our Southern counties
and then what it’s also doing
though is it shearing away a
good chunk of Marco the center
is actually located offshore
right about here but all the
convection from that as you saw
earlier on the radar loop is
all being pushed in towards the
Panhandle of Florida. So the
storms getting ripped to shreds
there’s just not much to it at
this point now not the case as
we get down towards Cuba right
about there. So you can see the
center is just offshore we’re
getting some good convection in
that center that is going to
continue to track its way.
Right now which looks like it
could be working and may even
miss a good chunk of that
Northwestern tip of Cuba.
And if that’s the case it could
get out into the open water a
little quicker right now the
official 10 o’clock advisory 60
miles an hour gusting to 70 and
as it works its way into the
open Gulf as we expected that
wind shear will back off the
warm waters are going to be
tapped into and we’re likely
going to see a category one
hurricane as early as Wednesday
morning, maybe even sooner and
then as it works its way
towards making landfall
possibly and towards late
Wednesday night early Thursday
morning just across the Texas,
Louisiana border towards
Louisiana, what could be a
category 2 may even be stronger
than that packing at least a
100 mile an hour winds before
it moves inland. So that’s got
us kind of on the outer Western
fringe, but there’s still a
good chance that we could be
looking at some potential for
damage and certainly a
potential for some trouble as
we said the windshear forecast
all this blue that you see
across as by Tuesday as the
storm gets out there it runs
into that low shear environment
and that’s an indication that
it likely will strengthen
fairly quickly so let’s talk
about what the future cast
winds are going to look like
with that this is the American
model and notices it gets
closer to shore we’ve got
tropical storm force winds
basically from East Texas all
the way over to New Orleans and
of course near the center where
it makes landfall could be
close to category 3 force winds
at a 110 about 411 200 and
almost 30 miles an hour and
that will do some significant
damage so we’re going to be
watching with this and we’ve
got some decent agreement with
the spaghetti models as well
that’s always good to see we
have to watch it very
carefully. If there are some
track changes either to the
West or East that’s going to
affect how we will see the
storm. So the bigger question
is where exactly does it go
well this area of high pressure
to the east is going to be a
big determinant the further
East that is the more lorcan
kind of drift off to the West
if that continues to move off
to the east that will allow
because Laura will strengthen
titan and make that northerly
curve which is what both the
European and the American
models believe is going to
happen of course if you talk
about the rainfall totals as
you might expect there’s about
10 to 12 inches in anywhere
from you know northern
Louisiana just offshore could
be looking at 6 to 8 inches for
us if this is the case it
continue to stay off to the
east that will mainly mean that
one to 2 inches for us overall,
so fairly these are forecast, I
want to show you this one more
model because here’s part of
the problem, this is our
in-house model and you notice
that is a way different
solution that what we’re seeing
with both the American and
European and that my friends is
why we say you always have to
keep your guard up because
we’re going to watch and track
changes which I expect to see
as the new advisories come out
this afternoon this evening but
in terms of impacts locally
force that stays on that same
track will mainly see some
elevated chances for
thunderstorms and even could
see some very strong winds of
course higher surf. Rip current
and we will see some fairly
strong winds by late Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday and then
things should start to back off
as we get in towards the
weekend. So still a lot of