Not A Beach Weekend
If you live along or near the Atlantic Coast, you might want to rethink your plans for the weekend. This is the current National Hurricane Center forecast path for Tropical Storm Hanna.
If you check below, you will see that while it has been spinning in place, the wind field has been increasing to a 290 mile radius, and it is finally starting to move. This is going to be a huge storm, and hugging the coast it is going to be able to produce a whole lot of rain.
It is currently forecast to be a Category 1 storm, so it won’t be a catastrophic wind event, but I would start filling your sand bags now. The rain will be welcome in some of the drought areas, but I think people would prefer to see it in smaller quantities over a longer time. If it moves as planned this is not a good weekend to visit Washington, DC, New York, Boston, etc.
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It looks like the track as moved a bit Northeast so Atlanta may only get some of the rain, if any. I am supposed to fly to upstate New York and visit a client in Connecticut next week which means I might have a messy week not to mention a rough ride to White Plains.
The storm drifted to the South and East while the steering pattern was forming, so the entire track shifted, if it also got a lot bigger by staying in place.
As long as you weren’t thinking of going on Sunday, things should calm down quickly after it passes. It should only be a tropical storm that far North.