“An Air Force Reconnaissance aircraft now investigating the broad low pressure area and tropical wave near the northern Leeward Islands has found winds to tropical storm force in a few squalls near the northernmost Leeward Islands”, the NHC said on its website.
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Whether it develops or not, it will likely bring rain and storms to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands by the end of this week.
It remains poorly organized as upper-level winds are only marginally conducive for any development. If it becomes a tropical storm, it will be named Hermine.
An “invest” is an area of disorganized showers and storms that the National Hurricane Center begins to investigate.
While Tropical Storm Gaston is expected to gradually weaken over the next couple of days between west Africa and the Lesser Antilles, the unnamed system dubbed only 99L, has a huge potential to become Tropical Depression Eight, Accuweather reports. Also, the track forecasting for early next week widely varies, creating a broad range of scenarios for many Gulf Coast and Atlantic states. “It’s a more complicated situation with the system not being developed and there is a lot of uncertainty”. Two swirls in the cloud pattern were evident, and 99L did not have a single well-defined circulation center. Despite an increase in wind shear, NHC meteorologists say it could still reach hurricane strength today. This means the tropical wave attracting a lot of attention of late will remain an area of interest moving over parts of the Lesser Antilles with gusty wind and spells of heavy rain.
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If a tropical system forms, forecast models show many solutions for locations where the storm would head, according to Merwin.
