Wanted to share this awesome satellite image of Hurricane Hermine churning in the Gulf towards Florida. Just a few days ago, Hermine was unnamed and disorganized, barely clinging to tropical depression status. Now, it has a clearly defined eye and thunderstorms are developing explosively around it.

Hermine will trek northeast across the “big bend” of Florida, then hug the Carolina coasts and bring flooding, strong winds, and heavy rain to southeast Virginia and the Tidewater region for much of Saturday and possibly lingering into the first half of Sunday as well. For the Richmond area, we’ll see breezy conditions and showers amounting to about a half inch, but nothing real crazy. In fact, western portions of central Virginia like Charlottesville and Roanoke may not see much if any rain at all. Areas east of I-95 are most at risk for the impacts from Hermine.