Tropical rainstorm poses threats for Hispaniola

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A storm that AccuWeather forecasters say will likely be the next named storm of the hurricane season is heading toward the Caribbean, but it might not be the last storm of the season.

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00:00We have our eyes on two separate areas in the Caribbean and the area around the Caribbean.

00:05That's right. Watching out for possibly our next named storm here as we head into the weekend. So

00:08let's go and get right into the latest here. Here's a quick look at our hurricane calendar

00:13here. And as you can see, even though we are past our statistical peak of September 10th,

00:18and yes, we are on a downward trend right from that statistical peak. But I do want to point

00:23out that we are in this current area that's circled. This is the part of the calendar

00:27that we are in. And I still want to point out that we are still in a very active

00:31named storm and hurricane season here for us. In fact, we're akin to where we would be in

00:37mid to late August. And in that time period, you definitely wouldn't let your guard down for any

00:41tropical activity. So don't let your guard down now, because as you can see, we still have at

00:45least 25% of our hurricane season, our tropical storm season to go here as we head throughout

00:52October, even into late parts of November. That's when we still see the hurricane season

00:57continuing. And speaking of that, Jeff was talking about the two areas we're tracking.

01:00The first one is going to be here south of Cuba. This is going to be for tomorrow,

01:04Friday and Saturday. Any storms that form in this area will be capable of quickly and explosively

01:10developing. And some of these storms could impact portions of Florida as we head into early parts

01:15of next week. Now, the good news is we have this area of high pressure that is rotating counter

01:20clockwise, and that's pretty much going to block any type of development here from moving in. It'll

01:25either deflect these storms off to the west into Mexico, or it's going to deflect these storms off

01:30to the northeast here into the Atlantic. But once again, this area does not include central and

01:35southern parts of Florida. So we could see some development down there here as we head into early

01:39parts of next week. The other area we are watching is going to be this tropical rainstorm continuing

01:44across the Atlantic. Right now, it's not named. However, as we head into late Friday into early

01:49Saturday, it does look like it will strengthen into a tropical storm. That's our latest projections

01:54here as you look at our exclusive AccuWeather eyepath. So once again, it does look like we're

01:58going to see our next named storm working its way towards the Leeward Islands and over towards Cuba

02:03and the overall impacts we are tracking Thursday night throughout the weekend and into Monday will

02:08primarily be north of Puerto Rico into Hispaniola. Some of these areas could see some heavy rainfall,

02:14some strong winds and some power outages. The overall impacts will be out in less than one

02:18of our AccuWeather real impact scale rainfall. We could see some areas seeing widespread four

02:23to eight inches of rain with our AccuWeather local storm max of 20 inches and offshore winds, Jeff,

02:29could climb as high as 90 miles an hour. So we will be watching this very close here as we head

02:34into next week.

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