Franklin Intensifying To Hurricane A Day Before Veracruz Landfall

AUGUST 9, 2017, WEDNESDAY 

Tropical storm Franklin which weakened to 35 knots winds as it crossed the Yucatan is intensifying again.

#Franklin landfall in 36 hours, August 10 early hours near Papalanta de Olarte, Alamo. Question is a little storm or a category 1 hurricane? pic.twitter.com/MVQ8ntuElv

— XWF WEATHER (@WeatherXwf) August 9, 2017

A National Hurricane Center bulletin issued at 1 AM EDT, 6 AM UTC says Franklin is throwing winds of 50 knots and strengthening.

NHC expects #Franklin to turn into a hurricane. HMON model predicts rapid intensification to 975 mb, 75 knots winds at Veracruz impact pic.twitter.com/hpFsduztR9

— XWF WEATHER (@WeatherXwf) August 9, 2017

A cause for worry for the Mexican government, as the hurricane is likely to hit Veracruz state shortly after midnight in the early hours of Thursday, local time.

Some forecast models are predicting a 975 mb storm at impact with winds 75-80 knots. That is sustained winds of 130km/h, gusts upto 160 km/h.

Franklin Will Intensify To A Cat 1 Hurricane Before Aug 10 Mexico Landfall

Tropical storm Franklin is weakening as it hits landmass while traversing the Yucatan peninsula in its first landfall into Mexico.

It will emerge into the Gulf of Mexico Wednesday morning CDT. And then as it moves west will gradually strengthen in the warm waters. Landfall will occur near Poza Rica De Hidalgo in Veracruz state at about 8 AM CDT on August 10, Thursday.

The most of the intensification of Franklin will occur 12 hours before the Veracruz hit. It will see it transforming into a respectable category 1 hurricane with sustained 10 minute winds of 120 km/h, gusting upto 160 km/h.

In the meantime expect a near 36 hours drenching of the 3 Mexican states in the Yucatan, Belize and Guatemala.

VIDEO: Franklin approaches Cancun

https://twitter.com/weatherxwf/status/894779466236305408

SATELLITE IMAGE OF FRANKLIN AT 5:45 UTC, 00:45 CDT.

MINIMUM PRESSURE OF HURRICANE FRANKLIN BEFORE EXPECTED LANDFALL AT VERACRUZ STATE ON AUGUST 10 MORNING CDT 

EXPECTED WIND GUSTS BEFORE THURSDAY LANDFALL

TRACK FORECASTS OF HURRICANE FRANKLIN 

Hurricane PATRICIA will reach Baffin Bay on November 2!

This lady monster has stamina! Hurricane Patricia is a category 5 tropical cyclone in north east Pacific Ocean and has given Mexico a fright of its life. It is going to hit Jalisco province of the country at around 0000 GMT, October 24, 2015. That is in less than 18 hours.

The hurricane will rapidly weaken into a tropical storm hours after impact and then into a tropical depression after that. But it is going to bring very heavy rains as it cuts across Mexico.

By October 25 it will have reached Houston, Texas. Patricia will go for a brief stroll in the Gulf of Mexico. On October 28 it will re-enter the United States and move through Mississippi, Alabama and Kentucky.

In the next 48 hours after that Patricia will move through the states on the eastern coast (including New York) and through Quebec, Newfoundland in Canada into Labrador Sea.

By November 2 the system will have turned into a extra-tropical cyclone and entered Baffin Bay. 

So we see that Patricia is no ordinary hurricane. It is going to travel through 3 countries in the coming 10 days.

We have based our predictions on the forecast data from the ECMWF model. It had been proved right from the beginning during hurricane Joaquín. It had predicted it would not make landfall into eastern USA even as other models, including the NHC were predicting a hit on the eastern coast.

Latest satellite image of category 5 hurricane Patricia 

Little Tropical Storm "VANCE" Will Dissipate Just Before Landfall At Mexican Coast November 4, 2014

It will be a nasty little storm. Not one of the large diameter hurricane. But small, fast moving and nasty. We talk here of tropical storm Vance.

In the next few days it will intensify, go around in an arc and finall reach the Mexican coast on November 4th near Tepic. The storm will dissipate before it makes contact with land. That part of the country will receive rains [Durango and Tepic].

The coast north of Tepic will be very windy.

Vance will break up before it hits the coast on Nov. 4

Track of TC Vance according to the NHC