Local Weather:
A weak cold front is expected to enter north Florida on Wednesday and stall sagging into central portions of the peninsula. This will help draw up moisture from the Gulf of Mexico northeastward allowing warm and humid with good chance for storms through Friday.
Keep in mind that some of the downpours will be capable of producing localized street flooding. Also, the storms that form will produce frequent lightning.
Winds will begin to shift due to a weak front that is forecast to stall over central FL. @wsvn pic.twitter.com/pr8u6IJc73
— Vivian Gonzalez (@VivianGonzalez7) September 27, 2016
Tropical Update:
A disturbance located in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico has a low chance to form. Conditions do not appear favorable for growth and it is expected to move into portions of northeastern Mexico during the next day or so.
Showers and storms associated with a well-organized tropical wave located 475 miles east-southeast of Barbados. It is moving west-northwest 15-20 mph and a tropical depression or storm by the name of Matthew could form later today or tonight. Regardless of whether it forms or not, heavy rains and wind gust to tropical storm force are expected to spread over St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago and likely the coast of Venezuela going into Wednesday.
Most of the computer models have this area over the central Caribbean Sea on Friday. By the weekend, it is expected to make a turn to the north. That turn will depend on a front protecting the United States and the placement of high pressure in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Right now, it is too soon to tell if it will have any impacts on South Florida. We will keep watching it closely.
Have a wonderful day South Florida and make it a safe one!
Vivian Gonzalez
Meteorologist, AMS Certified
WSVN Channel 7