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Tropical rainstorm aiming for the Caribbean
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10/16/2024
A tropical rainstorm out in the Atlantic Ocean is expected to strengthen before striking Puerto Rico and Hispaniola this coming weekend.
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There's a chance for development here among this disorganized cluster of showers and thunderstorms
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in the western Caribbean.
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There's a smaller, pesky zone of rain and tropical rainstorm that we're highlighting
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to the east there.
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And in both cases, we expect to be protected from a combination of the cold front and high
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pressure over the southeast that will follow that through the weekend.
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So ultimately, there may be some development in the western Caribbean into the weekend.
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That would be more of a threat for Honduras, Nicaragua, Belize.
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And the tropical rainstorm will likely organize into a tropical storm on Friday, passing just
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north of Puerto Rico and then moving in through the core of the Greater Antilles.
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That's a lot of land interaction.
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So we will see some big impacts into Hispaniola with some flooding rain there.
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But ultimately, as this moves west, gets suppressed south due to a trough and that high pressure
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system over the interior southeast, that'll bury this storm system down into the islands
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and we'll likely see it weaken after a lot of land interaction.
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But again, Bree, we're looking at big-time flooding here in Hispaniola, 4 to 8 inches
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in the mountains with an accurate local storm max of 20 inches possible.
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Yeah, mudslides, a very real risk.
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So certainly going to be keeping our eye on this one as we head into the weekend.
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