Posted: Thursday, September 26, 2024. 10:47 am CST.
By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Hurricane Helene is strengthening as it nears Florida’s Big Bend.
Helene is forecast to make landfall this evening as a major hurricane.
A significant increase in forward speed is expected during the next 24 hours.
On the forecast track, Helene will make landfall in the Florida Big Bend region this evening. After landfall, Helene is expected to turn northwestward and slow down over the Tennessee Valley on Friday and Saturday.
Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 105 mph (165 km/h) with higher gusts.
Additional strengthening is forecast, and Helene is expected to be a major hurricane when it reaches the Florida Big Bend coast this evening.
Weakening is expected after landfall, but Helene’s fast forward speed will allow strong, damaging winds, especially in gusts, to penetrate well inland across the southeastern United States, including over the higher terrain of the southern Appalachians.
Another disturbance AL98 is associated with an area of low pressure located several hundred miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands has become more organized during the past several hours.
Environmental conditions appear conducive for continued development of this system, and a tropical depression could form as soon as later today while it moves generally westward to west-northwestward near 15 mph today and tomorrow. The system is then forecast to slow down and turn northward late Friday and Saturday.
This system has a 90% chance of formation through the next 7 days.
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