Brandon Lashbrook

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The tropics in the Atlantic are now bubbling with activity with three areas being watched for development. One tropical wave is in the Central Atlantic (Invest 92L) with another disturbance behind it in the Eastern Atlantic.

As of the Monday 1 p.m. CDT update from the National Hurricane Center, Tropical Storm Francine is a bit stronger and getting better organized with maximum sustained winds of 60 mph and minimum pres…

Tropical storm conditions will likely begin at the coast Wednesday morning near sunrise, moving inland towards the Baton Rouge area through the late morning into the afternoon.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — As of the 7 p.m. Tuesday update from the National Hurricane Center, Francine is now officially a hurricane with maximum sustained winds at 75 mph and a minimum pressure at 982 mb.

The National Hurricane Center is monitoring several tropical disturbances Saturday morning. One has expanded to cover a large portion of the Gulf of Mexico and has a higher chance of developing into a storm.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — We are in the peak portion of hurricane season, which means that we typically see a good amount of tropical activity in the Atlantic.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The tropics remain active as we progress through September as the National Hurricane Center (NHC) is watching two areas for tropical development over the next week. One area is Invest 97L in the Caribbean, which will move into the Gulf of Mexico this week and the other area is a tropical wave moving off the coast of Africa.

As the remnants of Helene move away, the tropics remain very active as we near the end of September.

Tropical development may be possible in the Gulf of Mexico by the weekend which is likely to bring heavy rain to a portion of the Gulf Coast and Louisiana.

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — On the inside, the hum of an airplane. But on the outside, Hurricane Milton violently churns right outside our window as BRProud joined the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron in the skies.