The chances of development were only 10 percent.
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Saturday: Partly cloudy, hot and humid, highs in the middle 90s.
Should the system develop into Hermine, it would become the eighth named storm of the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season.
Upper-level winds are expected to remain unfavorable for significant development during the next couple of days, as the system moves west-northwest at about 10 miles per hour, the National Hurricane Center said.
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. However, forecasters don’t expect it to become a storm before it reaches the Texas coast.
“The estimated minimum central pressure from the aircraft data is 988 mb [29.18 inches]”.
It’s important to remember that regardless of development, the large envelope of moisture around this tropical wave could still potentially lead to periods of heavy rain across Southwest Florida by early next week.
Invest 99L has not survived well after it entered dry air in the Caribbean.
NHC meteorologists give odds of 80 percent that a low pressure associated with a tropical wave centered just southeast of the Turks and Caicos Islands will become a tropical depression within the next five days. Right now, two significant storms are being tracked in the Atlantic, including a mostly disorganized low-pressure system called Invest 99L.
FOR NEXT WEEK: At this time we are going to stick with a persistence forecast as the upper-level ridge will remain in place.
Officials report that neither of these storms is to be anxious about for the United States but there is another strong tropical wave, Invest 99-L as per report of Naples News, entering the Eastern Caribbean that people should be wary of.
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