By The News Service of Florida
Gov. Ron DeSantis said the state is monitoring a growing disturbance off Mexico’s eastern coastline that has a 70 percent chance of forming into a named system within a week and bringing large rains to Florida.
“There’s something in the Gulf, but they think the (wind) sheer is going to get it, right?” DeSantis said during an event on infrastructure improvements in Indian River County on Monday.
“We’re monitoring all that. But I think it would be great for state to have two years in a row with no impacts from tropical weather,” DeSantis added.
Early Monday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center was monitoring a trough of low pressure producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms in the Gulf that had a low chance of forming over the next two days but a 70 percent chance of becoming a named system over the next seven days.
“Although environmental conditions appear to be marginally conducive, gradual development is becoming more likely, and a tropical depression is likely to form during the middle or latter portion of the week,” an advisory from the center stated. “This system is expected to drift eastward over the next few days, before it turns northward.”
If the system reaches sustained winds of 39 mph, moving from a tropical depression to a tropical storm, it would be named Isaias.
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