Welcome to FOX Weather’s daily weather update. It’s Wednesday, September 18, 2024. Start your day with everything you need to know about today’s weather. You can also get a quick look at national, regional and local weather anytime with the FOX Weather Update podcast.

New tropical disturbance threat in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico

As tropical activity in the Atlantic ocean As winds calm down, attention will turn back to the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, where there are increasing signs that atmospheric conditions are favorable for the development of what could be the next named storm sometime next week.

The National Hurricane Center is now officially monitoring the area for tropical development and is giving a slight chance of development over the next seven days. According to the FOX Forecast Center, further development may occur after seven days.

Region to watch in the Caribbean

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The risk of severe weather hits the Midwest

Thunderstorms with strong wind gusts and isolated large hail are possible Wednesday across parts of the eastern Dakotas and Minnesota to the south-central Missouri Valley. A slight risk of thunderstorms is also possible across parts of the central and southern Plains.

A look at the severe storm threat in the Midwest for Wednesday.

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Watch: Daring boater films historic storm off North Carolina coast

A powerful storm system swept through the coast North Carolina on Monday with torrential rain and heavy Winds.

According to the National Weather Service, the historic weather event resulted in an astonishing 18 inches Precipitation in just 12 hours via Carolina Beach, Southport and Boiling Spring Lakes. The extreme precipitationan event that only occurs once every thousand years, led to widespread and destructive flooding.

Eitan Feldstein, sailing from Cape Canaveral to the Chesapeake Bay, captured the intensity of the storm on video. Due to severe weather conditions, his boat was forced to seek shelter in Carolina Beach.

“Unfortunately, we just got caught in the middle,” said Feldstein. “The storm was much stronger than we expected.”

Did you see it?

Skywatchers across the U.S. were treated to a multifaceted celestial event Tuesday evening when a partial lunar eclipse and a full supermoon were visible in the night sky.

The moon appeared not only brighter but also larger as it approached perigee, the point closest to Earth. At its closest approach in October, the moon will be more than 357,000 kilometers from the planet.

As the Earth passed between the Sun and the Moon, a temporary shadow was cast on our natural satellite, but the event was not as breathtaking as the total solar eclipse that millions of people experienced earlier this year.

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