The storm, which initially formed on Oct. 18, is meandering over the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean and may come close to Bermuda over the weekend.
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00:00 Well, Tammy, no longer characterized as a hurricane is a tropical rain and wind storm,
00:05 but it's still a very powerful storm.
00:08 When you take a look at the structure of it, basically what this has become, it went from
00:13 the structure of a hurricane to more of a storm that you would see in the wintertime
00:17 here.
00:18 In fact, yesterday, the cloud structure looked like a circle, right?
00:22 That's what a hurricane looks like with the center of circulation within the circle.
00:25 Now this storm looks more like a comma.
00:28 This is what you would see in a winter-like storm, right?
00:31 Where you got all the clouds and precipitation on the northern and well on the eastern side.
00:36 That's what Tammy is.
00:37 Now, Tammy still has a lot of wind, and it's going to be slowly meandering toward Bermuda
00:43 as we head toward Friday and Saturday before turning to the north and east.
00:47 Now, it stays well east of Bermuda, but the tropical storm force winds extend out about
00:52 150, 160 miles.
00:54 So we're going to have some gusty winds in Bermuda.
00:57 I don't think there's going to be a whole lot of rain with this, but the winds, I think
01:01 a sustained period here Friday, Saturday, at least into Sunday, maybe early Monday,
01:05 where we're going to have wind gusts 40 to 60 miles per hour here across the islands,
01:10 some rough surf as well.
01:12 All right, when you take a look at the season so far, Tammy was our seventh hurricane and
01:17 19th named storm of the hurricane season, which runs from June through November.
01:23 But we did have an unnamed subtropical storm during the month of January, so we've had
01:27 20 storms so far this year.
01:29 It's been a busy season as far as storms are concerned.
01:34 Most of the storms have been in the Atlantic, which is normally the case.
01:37 You get more storms in the Atlantic than you do in the Caribbean and Gulf.
01:41 But the activity this year in the Caribbean and Gulf, this is a little unusual or unusually
01:47 quiet.
01:48 So these waters are undisturbed.
01:50 They're very warm.
01:51 And when you kind of look at where we look at development, I'm really worried that we're
01:56 not done yet, especially in the Caribbean.
01:59 I have to think there's going to at least be another storm through this year, right
02:05 through this season.
02:06 Now, as far as our next storm would be, Vince, I don't think you're going to see a storm
02:09 over the next couple of days.
02:10 There are two possibilities for a storm here over the next, let's say, week to 10 days
02:15 early next week.
02:16 I could see an area of low pressure spinning up here north of the Bahamas, east of Florida.
02:21 That would head out to sea anyway.
02:24 During the month of October, late October, you look in where?
02:27 Northwest Caribbean and the Caribbean, eastern Gulf of Mexico and the southwest Atlantic.
02:32 And again, we're worried about early next week north of the Bahamas.
02:35 But I think there is a greater threat across the Caribbean because next week you're going
02:41 to have an area of high pressure, pretty strong high pressure, leaving the east coast.
02:45 And when that happens, you look along the belly of that high and that tells me, look
02:50 out across the Caribbean.
02:51 I think something's going to try to develop in this area.
02:54 Now, I'm not saying it's headed toward the U.S.
02:57 I don't know that.
02:58 But I feel pretty confident that you're going to see a big area of showers and thunderstorms
03:02 here mid to late next week.
03:05 And by the weekend, something is going to try to form.
03:08 So that's our biggest area of concern as we move forward pertaining to the tropics.