The National Hurricane Center is tracking another Gulf threat

So as of Saturday afternoon, we're tracking two active storms and two areas of invest areas where the National Hurricane Center is interested in potential development. Soon. This one that's way out in the Atlantic, that one's probably going to become Kirk. And this one that's in the Caribbean, unless something beats it to it, it'll likely get the name Leslie sometime later this next week toward next weekend and look where it's headed the Gulf of Mexico yet again. Uh When we had our systems over the past couple of weeks, you had Francine that hit Louisiana. Uh Then you had, of course Helene that hit the Florida coastline that did *** little bit of damage to the ocean temperatures or what's called oceanic heat content that's looking at what's available for fueling *** tropical cyclone. And in this case, the water temperatures have cooled over the eastern part of the Gulf and here near the Yucatan, there was *** lot of upwelling, but look at this, this is called loop current right here. Uh There's *** lot of really warm water moving northbound there. There's plenty of warm water out here in the Western Gulf. So watch what happens with this thing called the central American gear. You get this broad area of low pressure that develops over central America and often these things will seed tropical development. So they basically assist in hurricane formation. And sure enough, look at that by Wednesday of next week, this is the GFS model and not only it's, it's look, it's not out there by itself. Uh It along with multiple other global models suggesting that we've got *** tropical system, whether it be tropical storm or hurricane moving into the Gulf toward the end of next week. Now, this is more specifics about that GFS model and this is kind of impressive looking. Uh You, you see this potential gulf coast threat next weekend, we'll run it from about Friday to Monday. The fourth through the seventh models are gonna flip flop all over the place with it, but Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida kinda all under the gun for the potential of yet another storm making landfall on the gulf coast. Now, if we run this model to its completion and remember *** lot of flip flop movement back and forth with it, that would be wants to bring it up across Southeast Alabama. Uh There is room for this thing to potentially go in all the way as far west as maybe western Louisiana and then some guidance including the GFS ensembles and the European model that want to send it back over here toward that northeast corner of the Gulf and that's desperate where we do not need this at this point. So how will that affect the weather in Alabama in the next seven days? Well, if we get rid of these spotty showers on Sunday, we have *** few sunny days, then of course, we're gonna watch the Gulf going into next weekend. High temperatures are gonna be in the eighties overnight. Lows down in the sixties and very limited risk of any rain at all until maybe next Friday or Saturday.