Tropical Storm Sean became the 18th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, but it will remain over the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
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00:00 Tropics continue to roll along
00:01 during the month of October and we
00:03 do have a tropical storm by the way.
00:05 It is Sean.
00:06 It was was a tropical storm.
00:08 Then I want to tropical depression.
00:10 Now it's back to a tropical storm.
00:12 Couple other tropical waves
00:13 were tracking for you by the way.
00:15 One off Africa not worried about that.
00:17 That will dissipate and our other
00:19 tropical wave moving from the
00:20 Atlantic and into the Pacific.
00:21 But here is Sean in the Atlantic.
00:23 Maximum staying winds right
00:25 around 40 mph.
00:25 It continues to move to the
00:27 Northwest at 10 mph.
00:28 We're going to be tracking this as
00:30 we go over the next couple of days.
00:32 But you know,
00:33 as we've been talking about as it
00:35 moves to the West Northwest this weekend,
00:37 it's really going to start encountering
00:38 sheer and really we can share strong
00:40 winds in the middle upper part of the
00:42 atmosphere. I don't think this is going
00:44 to have any impact on the United States.
00:46 Will have to see if some of its
00:48 moisture can get involved with that
00:50 big dip in the jet stream that trough
00:52 coming into the eastern United States.
00:53 Late next week,
00:54 more than likely any moisture
00:56 would be steered out,
00:57 so we'll keep an eye on it.
00:58 By the way,
00:59 Sean was the 18th storm to form
01:01 doing the hurricane season,
01:03 which begins in June last through November.
01:05 We've had 18 storms,
01:06 but total for the year we've had 19 storms.
01:09 We had an unnamed subtropical storm
01:11 during the month of January in the Atlantic,
01:14 so we've had 19 storms,
01:16 six hurricanes,
01:16 12 tropical storms,
01:17 and we've had four impacts
01:19 along the United States.
01:21 Now keep in mind,
01:22 October you don't think as a busy
01:24 hurricane season you're going to
01:26 have a busy hurricane month,
01:28 but it actually is.
01:29 And you start looking closer and
01:31 closer to home for development.
01:32 What we call homegrown development.
01:34 When do we get that big dips in the
01:37 jet stream coming across the eastern
01:38 and central United States that will
01:40 bring fronts or upper low South that
01:42 could start the process of tropical
01:44 development. We do have a big dip
01:46 in the jet stream coming early.
01:48 Well,
01:48 late next week,
01:49 so this is an area to watch.
01:51 We have it highlighted in red.
01:53 Eastern Gulf of Mexico,
01:54 Northwest Caribbean,
01:55 and the Southwest Atlantic.
01:56 Again, beware of homegrown development.
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