Kyle has formed....but not along the coast.....

Our low pressure along the coast has still yet to me declared an official tropical system by the NHC, in spite of it having an eye-like feature at times and warmer temperatures in the eye than in surrounding sections of the system. The NHC maintains that the system is not really tropical in nature and is still associated with a frontal boundary.

Like I have been mentioning, official declaration or not, this will look and feel like a strong tropical storm along the Carolina coast as it makes landfall.

Our disturbance north of Puerto Rico has been declared Tropical Storm Kyle...the official track takes it into the Canadian maritimes.

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Thursday...

**Above is today's edition of the Carolina Weather Video....no Tropical Weather Video today....all is discussed in the Carolina video. Give it a watch.**

All eyes remain on the area of low pressure strengthening and approaching the Carolina coast today. The wind field with that low is very impressive, and we will continue to see windy conditions through the day with gusts possible exceeding 40mph at times today and tonight.

Along the coast, this will look and feel like a strong tropical storm with high winds, significantly increased surf, lots of rain, and beach erosion issues.

In terms of rain, we will see areas of rain settle in as today unfolds, and I anticipate periods of rain tonight and tomorrow. Highs today and tomorrow will only be in the low to mid 60s.

The weather improves for the weekend with only some lingering showers Saturday and a dry forecast Sunday.

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Quick hit...

Nasty low pressure wrapping up off the coast. The NHC has not classified this as a tropical or subtropical system as I am typing this, but make no mistake, this will be a nasty storm for the coast of North Carolina and the upper coast of South Carolina.

Like I mentioned in the videos this morning, this will look and feel like a significant tropical storm, whether it gets classified or not.

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