00:00We're going to begin our tropical update actually in the Pacific because there is some more noise out this way as the Atlantic is temporarily quiet, but not for too long.
00:08Here's Hawaii. In south of Hawaii, we have Hurricane Iona. This is a pretty powerful storm.
00:14Maxistane winds of 125 miles per hour. This is indeed a major hurricane moving west, well removed from Hawaii, staying way to the south with a pretty steady westerly motion.
00:25And then right behind that, so while we have Hurricane Iona just to the west, here's Tropical Storm Keelai there just off to the east.
00:33And that's also moving west, right on its heels, a far weaker storm.
00:37But we have strong low pressure south of Hawaii and high pressure way to the northeast.
00:42There is an increase in the trade winds as you have the clockwise flow around a high, counterclockwise flow around both of these storms to the south.
00:51So again, increasing the trade winds. Now there was a far more dramatic and dynamic contrast that we experienced two years ago when we had those massive Maui County wildfires.
01:00That was a much stronger ridge closer to the north, but still there will be an increase in some fire danger, even though it's not going to be as volatile as we experienced back then.
01:10We also have other prospects, three other zones that we're watching southwest of Mexico and also over the open water.
01:16So a lot of traffic and there will be more development to come in the Pacific.
01:19Taking you to the Atlantic, we're watching a few different areas.
01:22Stronger tropical waves are making more progress off the west coast of Africa into the main development region.
01:27Strong shear, though, east of the Caribbean will prevent any of them from making it too far west.
01:33But a little closer to home, there's a front that's going to deposit itself off the coast.
01:37We need to keep an eye out for that area.
01:39There's a little bit of a weakness in the shear here.
01:41Now the front's going to push through with some extra shear, but eventually there will be a little break in the shear.
01:45So limited chance for development a little closer to home between Saturday and the middle of next week.
