WLOX Weather Update with Meteorologist Eric Jeansonne

Hancock County that's we're seeing a lot of the heaviest storms right now over Waveland Bay St Louis Diamond Head the kill all that's heading up towards Doo quavis Pass Christian eventually over towards Long Beach as well right now Harrison County not seeing too much but we're starting to see some thunderstorms bubble up ahead of that main cluster and again all these storms so far have been just below severe limits but some of these may be capable of some strong Gusty winds even saw a report around soer uh with some small hail from some of these thunderstorms over to Jackson County so far most of the activity has been in the northern part of the county but I do expect those showers and storms to increase in coverage over Jackson County over the next couple of hours looking at futurecast sort of having some trouble trying to uh kind of get a good grip on these storms but I do think at least it has the idea that we see these scattered CHS and thunderstorms over the next couple of hours with the majority of the activity beginning to D after about midnight let's take a look at some of the tower cams this is our Silver Slipper tower cam in Baye St Louis where those heavy storms are you can't really see much as most of those showers and storms uh are just dumping a lot of very heavy rain in those locations switching over to the bage tower cam in buuy right now the skies don't look too ominous but most likely we'll start to see those uh heavy storms roll in from the West we're going to keep rain chances elevated even as we go into tomorrow the opportunity for those hit and Mists showers and thunderstorms will persist speaking of rainfall all the rain that we've seen for the month of July by the way July is typically our wetest month on the coast so far at Trent lot airport and Moss Point for the month we've picked up 6.14 in of rain that's almost about an inch above where we should be for this month now Golfport buuy International at the airport so far for the month we've picked up 4.78 in that's just below where we should be at least for this part of the month where we should be around 5.67 so running a little bit below but I do think once we get some of these thunderstorms rolling through we'll we'll start to see those numbers kind of even out so tomorrow we do it all over again we'll have that opportunity for those hit and miss showers and thunderstorms some of those could be on the heavy side quick update on the tropics uh right now not much has been going on in the tropics ICS and that's typical you know July is typically one of our quieter months when it comes to Tropical activity but we are just beginning to move into what is typically the most active time of the year once we get past about August 15th about 85% of the tropical systems that we see develop form after August 15th through mid October so we are just beginning uh to enter what is typically the peak of hurricane season July is usually quiet we usually get a lot of Saharan dust that kind of inhibits tropical development and we've seen that over the past couple of weeks or so once we had hurricane barrel and tropical storm Chris form in June and July the rest of the month has been pretty quiet but there are some signs that once we get into the first and second week of August maybe things might start to light up again right now no tropical activity EXP over the next 2 to 7 days over the Atlantic but we are watching these tropical waves coming off the coast of Africa in particular this very robust one coming in uh lot of thunderstorm activity with this very strong just to the east of the Cabo Verde Islands we're going to keep an eye on this some of the models have been trying to develop this in about 5 to 7 days from now a little too early to say anything about how that's going to evolve but something we're going to keep an eye on in the coming days as far as dry air goes there's a ton of dry air and Saharan dust tracking across the Atlantic this is the water vapor Loop all the areas that you see in yellow and orange that is uh typically dry air so uh that usually inhibits thunderstorm activity along with the Saharan dust and looking at the latest Saharan dust model from NASA we continue to see these dust plumes tracking across the Atlantic this dust in the atmosphere can inhibit tropical development temporarily it's not a permanent fix for the season so we've seen a lot of Saharan dust over the past couple of days uh that could potentially lead or at least lead to a decline in tropical activity at least going throughout the next seven days but beyond that there are some hints that we see perhaps the tropical activity begin to uh ramp back up once we get into August 7day forecast here on the coast again hit and miss thunderstorms possible each afternoon some of those could be Heavy uh we're just going to have to U deal with it some of us will get the Heavy Rain others will not but for the most part uh we're sort of stuck in this very uh Tropical summerlike Pattern we've seen with these daily afternoon storms across south Mississippi