The official start of the 2007 hurricane season is June 1st. Beginning in 2002, the National Hurricane Center started assigning names to "subtropical" systems. A subtropical storm is a storm that is not truly tropical (warm core) in its origin. For example, Andrea began as an upper level, cool core low pressure system. Due to its slow movment off the southeast US coast, it began to have thunderstorms develop around the center and gain some warm core, tropical characteristics, especially at the lower levels. Once the Hurricane Hunter aircraft investigated the system early Wednesday, they determined that this system was subtropical and assigned the name "Andrea". Andrea will not threaten the southeast US coast with much damage or rainfall, mainly just a nuisance to tourists. The heavier rain should stay offshore, and wind gusts will go above tropical storm strength (39 mph and above). Andrea should drift just off the Florida coast and slowly weaken through early Saturday. Andrea will have no impact on our local weather. The 2003 hurricane season got off to an even earlier start with the formation of Subtropical Storm Ana in late April of that year near Bermuda.
Follow this link to the Newschannel 9 Hurricane Data Center (Just below the local 7 day forecast)
Today's Newschannel 9 Webcast also details the path of Andrea.
Our local weather was hot and dry with many of us seeing temperatures in the upper 80s. Expect the humidity to increase a bit through Friday. This should eventually lead to some scattered showers Friday and Saturday. Don't cancel those outside plans just yet, the threat of rain is just on a scattered basis. The best coverage of showers should shift to the south on Saturday. We should be dry for Mother's Day Sunday.
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David... thanks for adding this. I look forward to see what folks have to say.
Thank you Richard!
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