Meteorologist Laurel Blanchard
@lblanchard_wx
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Meteorologist at FOX 35 Orlando Catch my forecasts Weekend Evenings at 5 and 10PM and Weekday Evenings at 8PM
Orlando, Florida
Joined December 2014
Today, I am celebrating 1 year of working at FOX 35! 🥳🎉.This has been an amazing year filled of growth and learning from the most hardworking people I have ever met. Here is to celebrating many more milestones in the future! .@fox35orlando .@fox35stormteam
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NHC 8PM 8/12.New area of interest in the Gulf.No threat to FL but become a brief TD or TS for western gulf coast. And watching #Erin closely. Will not only become the first Hurricane of the season, but the season's first MAJOR hurricane. Still too early to tell track as of now.
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Happy first day of school Central Florida! I hope all the students and teachers have a wonderful first day! Let’s make this school year the best yet! 📚✏️📖🎒.This was my first day of 2nd grade!.And yes, at this point I was already obsessed with the weather😂
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FIRST CONE FOR #ERIN: Forecast shows that Erin will not only become the first Hurricane of the 2025 season, but the season's first MAJOR hurricane (Cat 3 or higher)
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To all students and teachers headed back to school tomorrow, here is your First Day of School forecast! .Have a great start to the school year and best of luck! You got this!✏️📓📚🎒
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INVEST 97:.Tropical development in . 48 hours- 50%.7 days- 90%.Could be Tropical Depression 5 as early as tonight or tomorrow. Tropical Storm predicted by mid to late week getting the name Erin. This is forecast to be the first Hurricane of the 2025 season. #Tropicalupdate
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Now watching Invest 97-L .8PM NHC Update 8/9, .60% chance of development in the next 7 days. It is still wayyyyy to early to tell where this system will be headed but we will be watching this system VERY closely in the coming days. @fox35orlando
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Models suggesting that Invest-96 will recurve and stay out at sea. Still a system to watch. But there is more tropical activity brewing. Another tropical wave will make its way off the coast of Africa and is a system that we will be watching closely. Stay tuned!.@fox35orlando
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NOAA released an update to their 2025 Hurricane Season Outlook. The outlook dropped the total forecast for named tropical systems down by one. NOAA still calls for "above average activity" for the rest of the season.
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ELECTRIFYING! ⚡️⚡️⚡️.FOX 35 Production tech Zoe Belanger captured the most AMAZING lightning video I have ever seen. This was from last night's intense storm. Just goes to show the power of mother nature.
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TRACKING THE TROPICS: Now watching INVEST 96-L in the Central Atlantic. The main player in defining where this system will track is an area of high pressure in the middle of the Atlantic. It is wayyyy too early to tell when this will track at the moment so stay tuned!
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The NWS has given yesterday’s tornado a rare EF-U rating. The “U” meaning unknown. Essentially, they don’t have enough damage to survey but there’s other evidence via radar and images/videos that suggests a tornado occurred.
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Check out the tornado in Northern Osceola Co. this evening. This video was taken 3.5miles down Nova Road from US-192 Eastbound in Northern Osceola County. After looking at the radar, a brief touchdown was possible around 7:20 PM. 📷:Matthew Thompson
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NWS PRELIMINARY REPORT ORANGE/OSCEOLA COUNTY TORNADO 8/4.Based on radar estimates, the tornado formed sometime between 7:15PM and 7:18PM and lifted at 7:23PM. Video from US-192 east bound shows tornado touch down. More info to come.@fox35orlando
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11PM NHC UPDATE 8/3. TROPICAL STORM DEXTER FORMS OFF EAST COAST.ABOUT 300 MI WNW OF BERMUDA.MAXIMUM SUSTAINED WINDS: 45 MPH. This is no threat to the U.S. Dexter will continue to move NE away from the east coast and Bermuda.
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Strobe light lightning in Eastern Orange County as storms make their way towards the Space Coast. ⚡️🌩️
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8 PM NHC Update 8/3.Welcome to the Tropics in August. Not 1, Not 2 but Tracking 3 zones for tropical development.Next 3 names on the list - Dexter, Erin and Fernand. Here are the details on all the zones that we are watching:
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2 PM NHC Update 8/3.Not 1, Not 2 but Tracking 3 zones for tropical development. Next 3 names on the list - Dexter, Erin and Fernand. Here is the latest about each zone:. @fox35orlando #tropics #HurricaneSeason
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8/2 8 PM NHC Update - Tracking 2 Zones. East Coast:.30% chance in the next 7 days. Will move away from U.S. Central Atlantic:.A tropical wave is forecast to move off of Africa. Development possible mid to late week while it moves across Atlantic. 20% chance in the next 7 days.
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