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From #News13: Tropical storm (likely to be named #Helene) projected to form later in the week, aiming for the Florida Panhandle.

https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/weather/2024/04/24/tracking-the-tropics-2024

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The Merritt Island ten-day forecast from Weather.com. They seem to be a believer in nascent #Helene. Thursday shows a 93% chance of thunderstorms with 27 MPH winds, for a storm on the opposite side of the state. But it's early.

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Projected track and intensity for nascent #Helene. Intensity as high as Category 3 for the Panhandle, meaning a major hurricane.

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The latest model for nascent #Helene, courtesy of Mike's Weather Page on Facebook. 941 mb in the eye is very bad.

(For the record, I'm on the Atlantic coast near Cape Canaveral.)

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#SpaceX Crew-9 is scheduled to launch Thursday at 1:30 PM EDT from #NASA #KSC Pad 39A, but, with the #Hurricane #Helene forecast for the Gulf on Thursday, I won't be surprised if they take down the #Falcon9 into the adjacent hangar and the crew shelter at the crew quarters.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/crew-9/

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The latest on nascent #Helene ... The forecast continues to worsen, now possibly a Category 4 for the Panhandle.

The final panel is the ten-day forecast for Merritt Island, where I live (as well as #NASA #KSC). The winds are now forecast as 29 MPH, higher than last night's 27 MPH.

The four-leaf panel model suggests this will be an event for almost all of Florida, catastrophic for some.

Images from Tropical Tidbits, Mike's Weather Page, and Weather.com.