Weather

There are no areas of interest in the Atlantic and things look to remain quiet over the next 7 days.

For decades, the Saffir-Simpson scale has rated hurricanes solely by wind strength, from Category 1 to 5. But researchers say that leaves out the deadliest threats: storm surge and flooding.

Heatstroke is the most common cause of death for law enforcement K-9s, Sergeant Mike Kilian with the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office’s K-9 Unit, said. 

Expedia said cities in Connecticut, Virginia and Michigan are seeing significant increases in search traffic, which can correlate to destinations with fall foliage and even Oktoberfest celebrations.

The tropical wave we’ve been watching now has a low chance to form. The odds for Invest 91L are down to 30%.

While the islands are in the five-day forecast cone, meteorologists said that Kiko will be a completely different storm by the time it approaches Hawaii early next week.

We are still tracking Invest 91L as it drifts across the central tropical Atlantic. The National Weather Service has now dropped its 7-day development odds to 60%.

The National Hurricane Center says a tropical wave in the eastern Atlantic, dubbed Invest 91L, should develop late this week or this weekend as it heads west.