Gaston was moving toward the west-northwest near 20 miles per hour (31 kph) and the National Hurricane Center said this general motion with a slight decrease in forward speed is expected during the next couple of days.
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The storm was located about 1,000 miles west of the Cabo Verde Islands, moving west-northwest at 17 mph. Expect much of the same Wednesday as we could be a few degrees warmer in spots.
Most of the computer models meteorologists use to forecast tropical weather show the system hitting the Southeast U.S. between Florida and SC sometime Sunday or later, Masters said.
We’re now headed into, climatologically, the most active time of the Atlantic hurricane season.
A tropical wave, still poorly formed but drawing interest from storm watchers, is approaching the Leeward Islands and poses a potential threat to Florida early next week.
There is wide disagreement in the usual suite of computer guidance models related to strength of the system, while most mainstream models indicate an ongoing path of movement to the west-northwest. Named storm or not, strong winds, heavy rain, flooding and mud slides will be possible in those areas. The storm will be named Hermine.
Tropical depression seven has become Tropical Storm Gaston in the middle of the Atlantic.
“Disturbance 1”, according to weather experts, is made up of a large area of disorganized cloudiness and thunderstorms located approximately 1,000 miles south-southwest of southern Baja California, and is associated with an area of low pressure.
Meanwhile, what was Tropical Storm Fiona is now become post-tropical, meaning it no longer has the organization to be considered more than just a loose system of showers and storms.
Tropical wave still has medium chance of becoming a tropical cyclone next 48 hrs & 5 days. There’s a possibility of a tropical system developing somewhere on the vicinity of southeastern Florida by Sunday.
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Formation chance through 5 days: 70 percent.
