Good morning, RZW Exec partners! Here is the verbiage I’ll be using in this morning’s forecast discussion concerning the tropical storm potential for the southern Gulf. The forecast discussion will be posted by 7:15AM publicly here in the RZWeather app and on Facebook. Still plenty of questions with not many answers…
TROPICS: TO BE OR NOT TO BE? That’s definitely the million dollar question this morning, and one that NO one knows the answer to just yet. One suite of models (the American Global Forecast System) continues to consistently point to the development of a tropical storm in the southern Gulf of Mexico or western Caribbean Sea in the middle to latter half of the upcoming week (Wednesday – Saturday timeframe). The ECMWF (European) model suite continues to point to a more neutral, seasonal pattern with no tropical system. Clarity will come over the next 2 days as we continue to get more data in. As I cautioned over the last two days, I would advise everyone across the Gulf Coast region (from Texas to Florida and all points in between) to keep tabs on this evolving system. No need to panic, worry, or have anxiety. The system may or may not materialize over the next few days.