Tropical Storm Wutip should make landfall on Hainan Island, China in a few hours. It’s sunset in that part of the world, here is the view from the Himawari 9 satellite at 5:30am …
Wutip is a 92kph (50 knot, 58mph) sustained wind storm, so a “middle grade” tropical storm. It shouldn’t cause a lot of damage, although there are around 13 million people within the tropical storm wind swath.
Elsewhere, no active storms now that Barbara and Cosme have dissipated, but a new storm should spin up in the same general area in a day or two. Here’s the NHC outlook this morning:
Invest area EP93 is just off the coast of Mexico, and is forecast to curve away from the coast, so the most likely impacts will be from waves …
The Frogmore Metroplex (coastal GA/SC) and rest of the Atlantic is currently safe from hurricanes for the next week or so, but Frogmore itself is trapped in a pattern of afternoon thunderstorms that looks to persist for another few days. Worth keeping your weather radio on in case something turns severe.
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