Tropical Storm Maria

[JimMIA]

Tropical Depression 14 intensified and is now Tropical Storm Maria, with 50 MPH winds gusting to 65 MPH.

The storm is currently WAY out in the Atlantic and will not threaten any land until Friday/Saturday when it may be in the NE corner of the Caribbean -- Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, etc.

Maria is on a similar track to Hurricane Katia, but more south. The forecast track calls for the storm to continue to move WNW at about 20 KT through the weekend. After that, the computer models (which are in fairly good agreement) show the storm turning to the right and recurving back out into the Atlantic without making US landfall.

Partially because of the high forward speed of the system, the intensity forecast does NOT show Maria reaching hurricane strength during the next 5 days.

It's WAY too early to tell, but this storm does not look like it will be a threat to WDW, VB, or HHI. Like Katia, we'll keep an eye on it, but will not be posting updates until it gets much closer to the US, or something changes significantly.

 

[GoofItUp]

Hoping for a miracle...that this thing heads straight for Texas and sits on top of us for a week!

 

[JimMIA]

Maria isn't going anywhere near Texas, but there's a system down in the Bay of Campeche that could head up into Texas. Too early to tell yet, but be careful what you wish for.

 

[spiceycat]

thanks - may be going to WDW this friday

 

[Havana]

Hoping it doesn't do any significant damage to Castaway Cay

 

[com_op_2000]

Hoping for a miracle...that this thing heads straight for Texas and sits on top of us for a week!

Tropical Storm Nate forms in South Western Gulf. Hope you can get some rain out of it.

 

[bobbiwoz]

I was going to send this to my DFs who are coming with me next week to Disney. I think I'm just going to ignore it. If we get something, and DH and I are doing a cruise right after my DFs leave, then I suppose we'll just have to deal with it.

Going to Disney on Saturday!

 

[CarolMN]

Hoping for a miracle...that this thing heads straight for Texas and sits on top of us for a week!

Hope Texas gets the rain it so desperately needs very soon (without any damaging winds or hail)!

 

[JimMIA]

Tropical Storm Nate forms in South Western Gulf. Hope you can get some rain out of it.

Yep, that system I was talking about is now TS Nate. It has a chance to get to Texas, but the models are all over the place so we'll just have to wait and see.

 

[keliblue]

heading to VB next week.. not worried just curious