As of 11 am Monday, the storm was located about 170 miles west-southwest of Key West, Florida.
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The system is forecast to reach maximum sustained winds of 45 miles per hour by Wednesday. The worst weather tends to favor areas immediately along and to the right of the path of a Tropical Storm, and Alabama will very much be on the left side.
Normally, a category three hurricane like Gaston would get all the attention, but since it’s expected to continue spinning in the Atlantic without affecting any land, that storm will likely go mostly unnoticed. The hurricane is expected to keep moving to the northeast, but begin fizzling by Saturday as it nears the Azores. The area of low pressure is expected to make its way into the Gulf of Mexico sometime on Monday, “where environmental conditions could become somewhat more conducive for development”, forecasters wrote in Sunday’s Tropical Weather Outlook report.
The center of the depression will pass north of the north coast of western Cuba on Monday and will move farther into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. GPM made horizontal and vertical measurements of rainfall within the developing tropical depression.
Rain chances in Central Florida on Monday stand at 50-60 percent, with highs in the low 90s.
Two tropical depressions and a hurricane in the Atlantic basin are keeping hurricane forecasters busy.
The tropical disturbance will approach NC from the east, leading to storms, gusty winds and high surf along the coast. The system would be off the southeast coast by late Thursday night and early Friday morning.
The NHC forecast indicated that the depression is expected to become a tropical storm.
Hurricane Gaston became the season’s first major hurricane as tropical depressions eight and nine formed over the weekend.
As of 10 a.m. CDT, Hurricane Gaston was located about 560 miles east of Bermuda and had winds of 110 mph. Forecasts show that the storm tracks toward Texas, Louisiana or Florida’s west coast.
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The Atlantic hurricane season runs through November 30.
