Well, Canada bracing for rough
weather is heavy rainfall,
and hurricane force winds are
expected to hit portions of the
country starting as early as tonight.
Hurricane Fiona hammered Bermuda with
heavy rains earlier today at now has
maximum sustained winds of 130 mph,
according to the National Hurricane Center.
The center of Fiona's forecast to
approach Nova Scotia before moving into
the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, Labrador,
and the Labrador Sea over the weekend.
Hurricanes in Canada are generally rare.
Let's turn to the forecast around here.
Brad, you're watching another system
that could pose problems for the US
yeah, we've got a system down to
our S that just got upgraded to
Ian tonight that could eventually
maybe impact the Southeast.
I'll tell you some of the scenarios
coming up, but between now and next week,
we've got gorgeous weather.
We've got a long time to watch that storm.
Temperatures out there tonight,
nice and chilly.
It feels like temperatures down into the 40s
and 50s already at 11:00 o'clock tonight.
Tomorrow will be a spectacular day.
Wall to wall, sunshine.
After that crisp cool start we
could jump 3035 degrees in some
neighborhoods with highs back into
the mid and even the upper 70s.
Cool high pressure and control a few
clouds passing to our N another fast
moving cold front approaches on Sunday,
so ahead of its SW winds.
That means temperatures jump back
into the 80s briefly and this
moves through late Sunday into
Monday and will cool us back down.
So most of next week we're going
to spend in the 70s with morning
lows in the 40s and 50s.
So really comfortable week ahead.
So the rainfall forecast pretty
minimal here for the next 5 days.
See some of the rainfall on the coast
that could be associated with our
tropical system on the day five scenario
if things kind of unfold the way we expect.
But for us, it could be very dry until
we get to late next week in the tropics,
a lot going on.
We talked about Hurricane Fiona.
It's not a hurricane anymore.
It's extra tropical winds are around 100 mph,
but they're spreading out and it's a
basically a giant northeastern now that is
hammering Nova Scotia and parts of Canada.
There's our tropical storm, Ian.
That is the most pressing
event out there right now.
The other ones will not.
Impact the US,
at least in the short term,
and I'm talking 7 to 10 days,
but Ian did get upgraded to
a tropical storm tonight.
Big explosion of convection,
those are cold cloud tops there.
The winds are up to 30 mph.
There is a chance this could go
through rapid intensification as
it approaches parts of western
Cuba and then eventually Florida.
The water here is really warm
and the land is flat.
And so it's not going to have
much of an impact on the system
as it moves towards Florida.
And then by the middle of the week it
should be somewhere over the Eastern Gulf,
maybe the the Florida.
Main handle or down in the Florida peninsula.
From there, where does it go?
There's a couple scenarios we're
watching with the guidance here.
They're kind of tightly clustered,
but then they get to Florida and
there's some divergence here,
some going inland, well to the West,
some going along the coast
and some off the coast.
So when we look at some of the
scenarios for Ian, for us,
there's three.
Basically,
we're watching one as well
to the West inland.
That would be the most problematic for us.
And then we have the yellow track
along the coast, some minor impacts,
but more of an issue on the coast,
and then the green one is
out to sea and no impacts.
At all, the red track is the one
we don't want to see here in the
Western Carolinas because that means
flooding some wind and tornadoes,
the steering currents,
they're pretty straightforward.
Ridge of high pressure to the West.
This trough digging down depends
how close they are together,
whether this can pull it up
and take it out of here.
It could get hung up a little bit
here before it kind of pushes out.
So our seven day rainfall forecast shows
a lot of rain near the coast because
that's kind of where we expected to be.
Any rain we see back to the West would
be more with the through and the cold
front pushing through late next week and.
Just to show you the time of
arrival for those winds in Florida,
they're gonna start seeing some issues.
Maybe Tuesday into Wednesday.
No issues for the weekend for us,
just beautiful weather.
Look at that.
Temperatures in the upper 70s to low 80s,
very dry, low humidity.
7 day forecast shows some
gorgeous weather for next week.
Now late next week we've got some cooler,
wetter weather and that's because
of that trough swinging in and
depending on what happens with Ian,
maybe because there was
some moisture back our way.
Stay tuned. Stay weather aware.
We've got most of the weekend.
Early next week to keep
an eye on that system.