Tammy continues slow trek across the Atlantic

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The storm, which initially formed on Oct. 18, is meandering over the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean and may come close to Bermuda over the weekend.

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00:00 Well, Tammy, no longer characterized as a hurricane is a tropical rain and wind storm,

00:05 but it's still a very powerful storm.

00:08 When you take a look at the structure of it, basically what this has become, it went from

00:13 the structure of a hurricane to more of a storm that you would see in the wintertime

00:17 here.

00:18 In fact, yesterday, the cloud structure looked like a circle, right?

00:22 That's what a hurricane looks like with the center of circulation within the circle.

00:25 Now this storm looks more like a comma.

00:28 This is what you would see in a winter-like storm, right?

00:31 Where you got all the clouds and precipitation on the northern and well on the eastern side.

00:36 That's what Tammy is.

00:37 Now, Tammy still has a lot of wind, and it's going to be slowly meandering toward Bermuda

00:43 as we head toward Friday and Saturday before turning to the north and east.

00:47 Now, it stays well east of Bermuda, but the tropical storm force winds extend out about

00:52 150, 160 miles.

00:54 So we're going to have some gusty winds in Bermuda.

00:57 I don't think there's going to be a whole lot of rain with this, but the winds, I think

01:01 a sustained period here Friday, Saturday, at least into Sunday, maybe early Monday,

01:05 where we're going to have wind gusts 40 to 60 miles per hour here across the islands,

01:10 some rough surf as well.

01:12 All right, when you take a look at the season so far, Tammy was our seventh hurricane and

01:17 19th named storm of the hurricane season, which runs from June through November.

01:23 But we did have an unnamed subtropical storm during the month of January, so we've had

01:27 20 storms so far this year.

01:29 It's been a busy season as far as storms are concerned.

01:34 Most of the storms have been in the Atlantic, which is normally the case.

01:37 You get more storms in the Atlantic than you do in the Caribbean and Gulf.

01:41 But the activity this year in the Caribbean and Gulf, this is a little unusual or unusually

01:47 quiet.

01:48 So these waters are undisturbed.

01:50 They're very warm.

01:51 And when you kind of look at where we look at development, I'm really worried that we're

01:56 not done yet, especially in the Caribbean.

01:59 I have to think there's going to at least be another storm through this year, right

02:05 through this season.

02:06 Now, as far as our next storm would be, Vince, I don't think you're going to see a storm

02:09 over the next couple of days.

02:10 There are two possibilities for a storm here over the next, let's say, week to 10 days

02:15 early next week.

02:16 I could see an area of low pressure spinning up here north of the Bahamas, east of Florida.

02:21 That would head out to sea anyway.

02:24 During the month of October, late October, you look in where?

02:27 Northwest Caribbean and the Caribbean, eastern Gulf of Mexico and the southwest Atlantic.

02:32 And again, we're worried about early next week north of the Bahamas.

02:35 But I think there is a greater threat across the Caribbean because next week you're going

02:41 to have an area of high pressure, pretty strong high pressure, leaving the east coast.

02:45 And when that happens, you look along the belly of that high and that tells me, look

02:50 out across the Caribbean.

02:51 I think something's going to try to develop in this area.

02:54 Now, I'm not saying it's headed toward the U.S.

02:57 I don't know that.

02:58 But I feel pretty confident that you're going to see a big area of showers and thunderstorms

03:02 here mid to late next week.

03:05 And by the weekend, something is going to try to form.

03:08 So that's our biggest area of concern as we move forward pertaining to the tropics.

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