Key Headlines
- Stronger Grace Results in Hurricane Watch for the Yucatan Peninsula: A track further south has resulted in less disruption to Grace while passing south of Hispaniola. After passing over Jamaica today, conditions are favorable for intensification into a category 1 hurricane before landfall close to Cancun and Cozumel, MX late Wednesday evening. By Friday, Grace will emerge into the Bay of Campeche as a tropical storm. Grace will likely strength back to hurricane status before landfall on the northern Mexico coast.
- TS Fred Makes Florida Landfall: Fred made landfall on the eastern Florida panhandle yesterday afternoon as a 65 mph strength tropical storm. Nine tornado reports and widespread rainfall of 3-6″ north into Georgia and North Carolina have transpired in the last 24 hours.
- TS Henri to Curve around Bermuda: The 8th named storm of the 2021 season, Henri was a minimal tropical storm at close approach to Bermuda. Henri will remain at sea and is not of further concern for land.
- Last Third of August Outlook: Behind the current trio of storms, a major Saharan dust outbreak looks to hamper any further tropical development over the next week.
Fred, Grace and Henri tracking across the western Atlantic basin and Eastern Seaboard of the US. Source: NOAA.
Timing of onset of tropical storm force winds with Tropical Storm Grace. Source: NHC/NOAA.
24 hour rainfall totals as Tropical Storm Fred moves north into the Mid-Atlantic US. Source: NOAA.
A large Saharan dust outbreak (warm shades) will progress westward across the Atlantic in the next week, slowing down the pace of further tropical development into the last third of August. Source: CIMSS/University of Wisconsin.
Additional links of interest:
U.S. National Hurricane Center
U.S. National Weather Service
Tropical Storm Fred Inland US Impacts