Hurricane IRMA & JOSE are future THREATS to USA Coasts & Must be closely Monitored

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A wave off the coast of Africa has already formed and is predicted to be a Hurricane by Friday. This presents no danger right now but we'd better be prepared for where it may go in 10 days. My prayers go out to the People of Houston & South Texas who are still dealing with the Hurricane Harvey disaster & those in Louisiana who are now experiencing Harvey and his floods and tornadoes. God bless everyone, T https://www.paypal.me/THORnews @newTHOR on twitter https://www.facebook.com/thornewsgo articles on the storms http://www.philly.com/philly/news/weather/philadelphia-weather-harvey-irma-jose-tropical-storm-20170828.html Irma, Jose brewing in the Atlantic as Harvey drenches Gulf Coast Harvey, with its almost unimaginable rains and devastating flooding on the Gulf Coast, has been the focus of national attention. For the U.S. coasts it ended the longest run of hurricane luck when it became the first major hurricane to make landfall on the mainland since the 2005 season. In the early going AIR Worldwide estimates insured losses of up to $2.3 billion, and Harvey undoubtedly will further swamp the troubled National Flood Insurance Program, already $25 billion in debt. And tropical-storm traffic in a season that already is about five weeks ahead of schedule shows no sign of relenting. Another potential tropical storm was brewing on the Southeast Atlantic Coast on Monday, and even if it doesn’t earn a name, it could have some effects locally. With forecast models showing a northward jog, wind gusts up to 50 mph were possible at the Shore, the National Weather Service said, and the storm is likely to generate a harvest of what the weather service is calling “dangerous” rip currents at the Jersey and Delaware beaches. To the south, the National Hurricane Center was forecasting 3 to 6 inches of rain and perhaps up to 9 in parts of the Carolinas and Virginia. While that pales in comparison to the 2 feet in Houston, that still would be a substantial dousing. At 5 p.m. the hurricane center was seeing a 70 percent likelihood that the coastal storm will morph into Tropical Storm Irma in the next 48 hours. That would be the ninth named storm — one with peak winds of at least 39 mph — of the Atlantic Basin season. On average, that ninth storm doesn’t pop up until Oct. 4, and usually only five have formed by the end of August. The 2017 season might well add a 10th by the weekend. The hurricane center says a wave off the coast of Africa has a 70 percent chance of becoming Tropical Storm Jose in the next five days. After Harvey, Tropical Storm Irma isn't far behind Tropical Storm Harvey made a second landfall on Wednesday along the Texas-Louisiana border, and the flooding rains associated with it are moving away from Texas ans into Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. Earlier in the week, it was looking like Tropical Storm Irma may form off the East Coast, giving the United States two tropical cyclone landfalls on two coasts in just as many weeks. While Harvey is still going strong, the system along the East Coast has fizzled and been pushed out into the Atlantic. Now forecasters are watching a second storm system in the middle of the Atlantic, which is now Tropical Storm Irma. Tropical Storm Irma is expected to continue to strengthen through the end of the week and into the weekend, possibly becoming a hurricane by early next week. It's still too early to say whether or not Tropical Storm Irma will make a United States landfall. Some forecast models show it staying in the Atlantic while others send it closer to Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. Late August and September are peak hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean, and it's not out of the ordinary to see a new tropical storm or hurricane every week or two. That's certainly been the case in the second half of August.