Tracking the latest on the tropics. The good news is that there is no immediate threat to here to southeast Texas. But the latest advisory from the National Hurricane Center has hurricane Barrel at a powerful category three hurricane. It is has a winds at 100 and 15 miles an hour, moving west at 21 miles an hour. This is an extremely dangerous hurricane and it is rapidly antic finding eventually strengthening into a category four storm as it reaches the lesser Antilles, Leeward Islands. It is expected to make landfall as a category two hurricane in the Yucatan Peninsula by Friday morning. So very uh we're seeing some, we're going to see some weakening with this system as it makes its way across the Caribbean just south of Cuba. So as we look at the model plots, the Spaghetti model is showing an agreement that it is going to be headed towards central America. Of course, not really a good idea to focus on one particular model. We want to keep an eye on the situation in the coming days because we're also tracking other disturbances. There's a 50% chance of development in the Bay of Campeche in the next seven days. Also behind Barrel, you're seeing Barrel right there spinning just north of South America. Another tropical wave, 70% chance as we head into the next week or so. We're also dealing with some Saharan dust. Saharan dust usually likes to tear apart these hurricanes and those tropical systems. It's also gonna be the cause of some hazy skies here across southeast Texas, another concentrated plume moving off the south coast of South America. But we are expecting the next seven days to be hot and humid, especially as we head into the fourth of July.
