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Where will Philippe and Rina head? Are more threats on the horizon? Here's everything you need to know.

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00:00 Alright, we have twin storms in the central Atlantic, both tropical storms, Philippe and

00:05 Rena right now, and they're within 400-500 miles of each other right now.

00:10 There they are.

00:11 Now, they're both very poorly organized right now.

00:13 The reason for that is there's wind shear.

00:15 I have the water vapor map on here because you can see the wind shear that's affecting

00:20 it.

00:21 It's right in here.

00:22 You see that on the northern side of the storms.

00:24 Also, there's some drier air trying to filter into these storms.

00:27 And both of these storms, the center of circulation is actually on the western side of where you

00:33 see all the moisture here on the water vapor loop denoted by the white and the green.

00:36 Now nonetheless, we're going to continue to track these as they remain in the close proximity

00:41 of each other as we go through the week.

00:43 And again, center of circulation is down in here, again, where most of the clouds are

00:49 where along the eastern side because of that westerly wind shear.

00:52 So this is tropical storm Philippe.

00:54 Now, I do think Philippe, as it's going to meander around, will start to turn to the

00:58 north.

00:59 As we get into early next week, conditions actually get less hostile here for development.

01:05 What do I mean by that?

01:06 There's less wind shear.

01:08 There's lighter winds aloft.

01:10 So I think Philippe can get a little better organized.

01:13 But here's the key.

01:14 It's going to continue to move north.

01:15 And a big dip in the jet stream off the east coast of the United States eventually will

01:19 steer this out to sea.

01:20 So we'll continue to watch that.

01:22 All right, then we go to Rina right now, which is located to the south and west.

01:28 This is even south and east, I should say.

01:31 This is even less organized right now as a tropical storm.

01:34 Again, this is going to be pulling northward, but we do think that this will likely weaken

01:39 as it pulls northward next week.

01:40 But here's the thing.

01:42 These will have no impact on the United States.

01:44 What we do have to keep an eye on, keep an eye on it, is off the southeast coast of the

01:49 United States.

01:51 Remember the setup that we had with Ophelia, where we had a dip in the jet stream and an

01:56 upper level low cut off in this area, and eventually it became tropical?

02:00 Well, that's kind of what we're seeing mid to late next week.

02:04 Now, the setup is not as conducive as Ophelia.

02:09 And even if we do get something to form here, I think it would likely be pushed away from

02:13 the United States.

02:15 But that's going to be an area to watch as we head toward the middle and latter half

02:19 of next week.

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