This one is off the East Coast and on a path that will take it very near North Carolina by mid-week. The system is expected to strengthen into a tropical storm Monday and potentially move across the northern half of the Florida peninsula by Thursday.
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Another tropical depression has formed in the Atlantic west of Bermuda, forecasters said Sunday. Wind gusts to 45 miles per hour were reported in the lower Florida Keys this afternoon and evening.The estimated minimum central pressure is 1007 mb (29.74 inches).HAZARDS AFFECTING LAND — RAINFALL: The depression is expected to produce total rain accumulations of 1 to 4 inches over the southern half of the Florida peninsula and the Florida Keys through Wednesday. It is expected to head into the Gulf of Mexico overnight.
Over the next two days, the depression is expected to start turning toward the west-northwest and back toward Florida as a tropical storm, forecasts said. The storm will near the Outer Banks late Monday and Tuesday and then shift north along the coast and offshore.
Meanwhile, Hurricane Gaston has reformed, gathering strength as it moves northwestward in the Atlantic.
The disturbance, known as Invest 99L, was forecast Sunday by the National Hurricane Center to become the eighth depression of the season but it has been struggling in the past week.
Also in the Pacific, Hurricane Lester, which was about 950 miles west-southwest of Baja, Calif., was moving westward near 13 mph and maximum sustained winds have decreased to 85 mph.
Hurricane-force winds extended outward up to 15 miles (30 kilometers) from the center and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 140 miles (220 kilometers). This watch is in effect until Saturday.
Gaston is moving northwest around 5 miles per hour… and the hurricane is likely to turn north Monday and the northeast by mid week with an increase in forward motion as it gets caught up in the westerlies.
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