South Florida

Hurricane Jose Expected to Cause Dangerous Rip Currents at Beaches

Hurricane Jose will not directly impact South Florida, but northeast winds will likely bring deadly rip currents to our beaches Saturday.

Category 1 Jose continues gaining strength in the Atlantic Ocean, creating a brisk northeast wind. That combination means there's a high risk of life threatening rip currents at the beach Saturday.

Jose expected to move parallel along the East Coast through Sept. 20.

Meanwhile, forecasters are keeping an eye on two systems in the Atlantic Ocean that may become the next named storms— Invest 96L and Tropical Depression 14.

Invest 96L sits 1200 miles east southeast of the Lesser Antilles and has an 80 percent chance of developing into a tropical storm or hurricane as it moves in that general direction.

Tropical Depression 14 sits 435 miles to the south southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands and is also expected to intensify – possibly becoming a tropical storm later Friday or Saturday.

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