Gilma and Hector both pose tropical trouble for Hawaii

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While the Atlantic Ocean remains calm in terms of tropical development, two separate tropical storms have Hawaii in their sights.

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00:00And the Atlantic things are starting to get a little more active as we look into next week

00:04Yeah, they've been a little quiet here as of late

00:08But we're still now keeping an eye on the tropics because we're heading right into the peak of hurricane season

00:14And we're tracking a pretty volatile September. Yeah, we do expect to see between six and ten named storms in September alone

00:21We've had five named storms so far this year in the Atlantic now in the Pacific

00:25Hawaii dealt with some recent heavy rain and wind debris

00:28Yeah, that was from what was hurricane Hone over the weekend now

00:33We are keeping an eye on Gilma and Hector still sitting out in the Pacific though Jeff

00:39Yeah, I feel like we've been talking about Gilma for quite some time now

00:41We have she's the storms been around for a little bit hanging in there absolutely

00:46And we're watching as at this point the Hone is moving away from Western, Hawaii

00:53We had some very heavy rain over 25 inches of rain on part of the Big Island when this moved through

01:00Again at this point Hone is moving to the west and moving away

01:04Out to the kind of the western part of the central Pacific right now

01:08So we're not going to see much more to that particular storm

01:12But as you can see this storm is going to continue to drift west and we're going to see this lose wind energy soon

01:17So by the time we hit Thursday

01:19This should be back down to either a tropical depression or even a tropical rainstorm, but off to the east here

01:24We have Gilma Gilma doesn't look all that impressive right now

01:28It's kind of a small nugget of convection

01:30But we are still seeing again max sustained winds of 65 miles per hour

01:36And this is moving pretty swiftly to the west at 15 miles per hour

01:39It's on a trajectory to eventually lift a little bit north of the Big Island in a weaker state

01:44So we'll be watching as Gilma closes in as a tropical depression on the Big Island pulling north Friday

01:49It will be losing a lot of its wind energy

01:51It'll be a more manageable storm and unlike the path that again Hone took

01:56This one's gonna actually bring a different trajectory in so with the islands mainly on the south side of the storm track

02:04You can envision the circulation around the storm

02:06That's going to actually drive some rainfall into the west facing typically the drier side of some of these islands

02:12And that'll be good because that'll help to mitigate some of the drought and fire danger concerns

02:17Tropical storm Hector is actually looking a lot more robust here

02:20This has had a pretty good day of deeper convection moving west northwest at 12 miles per hour max

02:25Sustained winds 50 miles per hour right now, and we'll be watching Hector, but overall similar to Gilma

02:31We expect some weakening in fact the weakening is gonna happen much sooner with this one

02:34To a tropical rainstorm before it also follows closely on

02:38Gilma's path to the north of the islands barely also bringing some rain and perhaps some drought relief with little wind

02:45Into the Hawaiian Islands here. We have the infrared satellite loop for the Atlantic when we say infrared

02:51We're looking at the temperature of the top layer of clouds

02:53So if you have a big zone of deep reds and oranges

02:56That's very tall cloud tops where it's very cold

02:59Even if you're down over the equator strong tropical waves a couple of these scattered across the Atlantic

03:04We have a big zone of dry air where

03:06Tropical waves are really fighting through some dryness at this point, and we'll be watching as one or two of these waves

03:13May organize this weekend into early next week a low chance of that the better chance for development's gonna come into the Caribbean

03:20Late next week still more than a week away, but overall what's kept things in check recently?

03:25It's not been sheer as much as dry weather and dry air the moisture is

03:29Increasing across the tropics and in that maroon color you can see this is where we have abundant tropical moisture drifting in so these tropical

03:36Waves are a little more widespread a little more robust and less dry air

03:39We still don't expect to see development anytime too soon

03:42But late next week about eight nine ten days from now over the Caribbean or perhaps the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos

03:49We'll be watching for a zone of more favorable

03:52conducive conditions for development

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