All eyes are on the tropics as two tropical depressions are expected to form into named storms today. State Climatologist Barry Keim says the closest system to Louisiana is tropical depression 14 and is currently getting better organized in the Western Caribbean.
“This storm is expected to track over the Yucatan Peninsula, probably enter the Gulf on Sunday morning, and the current projected landfall is in the Galveston/Houston area on Tuesday, but note that Louisiana is in that cone of uncertainty,” said Keim.
The storm is expected to peak at tropical storm strength.
Keim says the tropical depression 13 is also gaining steam but is about 750 miles east of the northern Leeward Islands in the Atlantic.
“It’ll affect Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands over the weekend, south Florida very very early next week, and is expected to reach the Gulf of Mexico by late Monday or early Tuesday as a hurricane,” said Keim.
Keim says both storms are likely to impact the US and Louisiana could be a landing spot for either or both.
“I don’t remember a time when we were ever tracking two storms that could potentially make landfall here this close together. This is a pretty rare situation. Hopefully, we will miss both of them,” said Keim.
A tropical wave coming off of Africa is a third area of concern, but Keim says that is still very far off.
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