“And those are two enemies of a tropical cyclone trying to develop”, the Miami Herald quoted National Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen as saying.
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At the same time, what was Hurricane Gaston has lost some steam and is now currently a Tropical Storm.
One issue is that the National Hurricane Center can not release a storm tracking map, or issue watches and warnings until a system is officially declared a tropical cyclone.
If the wave becomes a storm, it will be the eighth of the year as the Atlantic hurricane season moves into peak months. Our rain chance will be enhanced early next week, but there are no concerns for a major tropical system nearby Central Florida. That storm is expected to steer clear of Florida, but it could have a run-in with Texas before the weekend is out.
Moving toward the north-northwest at 17 miles per hour, Gaston is packing maximum sustained winds of 65 miles per hour, forecasters said. NOAA suggests a very low 10 percent chance that it’ll blossom into Tropical Depression Hermine before doing so.
Two storms are now organizing in the Eastern North Pacific Ocean and heading towards the Central Pacific. Forecasters said the storm’s heavy rain will spread to portions of south Florida and the Bahamas over the weekend.
According to the Bermuda Weather Services noon update, the storm remains around 870 nautical miles to the east-southeast of Bermuda and is moving north-northwest at 17mph.
“Rain chances will not be widespread at 30 percent”, Bridges said.
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Jeff Masters, of the Weather Underground WunderBlog, said “the week-long wait-and-see drama will continue for up to another week”, with the system. There are also the questions of what wind sheer, which has already hampered development of the storm, will do to the system in the coming days. The GFS model now shows it remaining weak, but it does take it into the Northern Gulf.
