JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — All eyes are on Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine Monday with current models suggesting hurricane development and a Florida landfall later this week.
The National Hurricane Center is now issuing advisories for Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine. This is a tropical wave over the northwestern Caribbean that is slowly drifting north. Initial forward motion is still hard to define considering its lack of organization right now.
This storm is forecast to get its act together pretty quickly though, as a more well-defined center could form in the next day or so.
Adjustments to the forecast may need to be made once it fully organizes around a center of circulation, but current models would suggest a Gulf Coast of Florida landfall Thursday evening.
Both the intensity and directional forecasts have this storm becoming a hurricane by early Wednesday morning.
If things hold with this forecast, this storm would be named Helene.
The First Coast could begin feeling impacts from this system on Thursday, with some areas along the I-75 corridor getting hurricane force winds and flooding rains.
The First Coast News Most Accurate Weather Team issued a Weather Impact Alert Day for Thursday.
Please check back here often as conditions can change rapidly, expect frequent updates.