Tropical Weather Forecast: Tracking Hurricane Vance

Alright, let's flip gears and switch to the tropics and we do have one hurricane out there that we are tracking. This is going to be Hurricane Vance. It's not in the Gulf. It's not in the Atlantic Basin. It's actually in the eastern Pacific, but it is forecast to rapidly intensify. In fact, by tonight or early tomorrow, it's likely going to become a category three hurricane. That is a major hurricane with winds around 120 miles per hour forecast to become that strong around 1 a.m. Saturday. and notice it's going to be kind of a slow movement to the north and eventually may make a turn to the northeast but by the middle of next week it's going to come dangerously close to making landfall across central parts of Mexico so we'll have to watch it closely right now it looks like it'll weaken back to a cat one before then but this is the 20th eastern pacific named storm and now the 12th hurricane of course because of that super el nino it's been crazy busy across the Eastern Pacific with just tons of tropical storms, hurricanes really lining up one after the other. So we're not going to get any type of direct impacts from Hurricane Vance, but some of that moisture will eventually kind of get thrown in our direction. So I think Vance makes landfall across central Mexico by the middle of next week. And then whatever is left of that, that leftover moisture is going to kind of slide our way. So it really starts to impact us, I think, by next Friday, about a week from now and into Saturday. And of course, you know what next Saturday is. It's Halloween. And I know a lot of you are keeping a close eye on what's going to happen here in Houston for Halloween. And we could have some influences from some tropical moisture kind of enhancing our rain chances, unfortunately. But it could be worse. We're not talking about a big threat for severe weather. Just maybe some clouds and some showers around that could mess with your trick or treat and Halloween plans. otherwise it's pretty quiet let's flip over to the Atlantic Basin that's the Gulf the Caribbean the Atlantic Ocean the few systems that we were watching out there have fallen apart they have moved on they're gone so we did have subtropical and then post-tropical cyclone Josephine that one is gone there was another area we were watching southeast of Bermuda not there anymore so the next name on the list would be Kyle and it may be a while before we have a Kyle forming and that is okay with me typically this time of october we start to see the tropical activity in the Atlantic basin kind of winding down for the Gulf still not impossible but hey the chance is lower but we've got to get all the way through the end of November before we can give you the all clear so as you've been doing just keep checking back with us we'll let you know if there's anything to worry about but right now coco we're looking great our weather locally close to perfect nothing bothering us from the tropics maybe a little moisture for Halloween enhancing our rain chances from whatever is left of Vance but we both know it could be a lot worse so i am happy about this forecast