Invest 99L was traveling west-northwest about 10 miles per hour and could cross Florida late Sunday or Monday and enter the Gulf as a tropical wave, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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Next 24 hours: Upper-level winds will not be conducive for development Friday while this system moves west-northwest at about 10 mph. There is uncertainty in the exact path of this system, but it looks likely to head northwest close to South Florida, and then into the eastern Gulf of Mexico, as indicated by the National Hurricane Center’s map below.
Tropical Storm Gaston is moving northwestward in the Atlantic with no change in strength.
Gale force winds, heavy rain and flash flooding is possible over Hispaniola and Cuba during the next couple of days. “And those are two enemies of a tropical cyclone trying to develop”, the Miami Herald quoted National Hurricane Center spokesman Dennis Feltgen as saying.
Invest 99L, the unnamed tropical mess rumbling through the Caribbean, continues its uncertain journey toward the Gulf of Mexico.
Conditions are not particularly conducive for development during the next day or so while the system moves more slowly toward the west-northwest at about 10 miles per hour.
While the threat of a tropical storm or hurricane in Florida this weekend diminished greatly Friday, a system could still spin up in the Gulf of Mexico by early next week, meteorologists warn.
The system is expected to deliver gusty winds and locally heavy rainfall to parts of the Bahamas, spreading into southern Florida and the Florida Keys, over the weekend. NHC is giving is a low chance for development in 2 days and a medium chance in 5 days. It gives it a 60 percent chance to develop in the next five days.
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Maximum sustained winds are being measured near 50 miles per hour with higher gusts being recorded, while tropical storm force winds are now extending outward up to 45 miles from the storm’s center. Activity is expected to spread over eastern and central Cuba through the weekend.
