Farther out to sea, Tropical Storm Gaston’s maximum sustained winds had increased to near 50 miles per hour at 4 a.m. Tuesday (tbtim.es/gaston).
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Tropical Storm Fiona dissipated as it approached the northern Atlantic.
Meanwhile in the Pacific, Tropical Storm Lester is strengthening far off Mexico’s coast.
There is a medium chance of the system developing into a tropical storm in the next two days and a high chance of developing over the next five, the hurricane center reported. Fiona is now a “fish storm”, lying 800km south-southeast of Bermuda. The prediction is that the weather system will take a general west to west-northwest path near Puerto Rico on Wednesday night. Forecasters say it is possible conditions will become more conducive for development later this week as the system moves closer to Hispaniola and the Bahamas.
Gaston was forecast to continue to move northwest in the direction of Bermuda but was expected to turn to the northeast several hundred miles before reaching the island.
Hurricane Gaston has weakened to a tropical storm in the Atlantic.
According to the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, reports from an Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft indicate that the tropical wave has an elongated and poorly defined circulation. The chance for formation within 5 days remains at 60 percent.
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Earl became the first hurricane of the season, causing death and destruction as it brought damaging winds and flooding rain to the southern Caribbean.
