The National Hurricane Center did send a plane to check it out and found that it is not well organized yet.
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According to the US National Weather Service at San Juan, Puerto Rico, the system is forecast to bring showers, thunderstorms and strong winds to the area on Wednesday.
Elsewhere, Fiona broke apart in the Atlantic and Kay became a remnant low in the Pacific.
The system then could rapidly intensify into a large, potentially risky major hurricane that would target the Southeast U.S. coast Sunday or Monday, Weather Underground meteorologist Jeff Masters said.
Meanwhile, forecasters say Tropical Storm Gaston could strengthen into a hurricane Wednesday, but it will remain out at sea.
Over the coming days, models show the storm taking a path toward Florida, although the projections are still uncertain about its strength and track. Further development also depends on the wave avoiding the mountainous Caribbean islands. Anyone living in The Sunshine State and across the eastern seaboard should monitor the tropics over the next few days. This is a tropical wave, an area of disturbed weather.
Either way, a chance does exist for a tropical system to have an impact along the northern edge of the Greater Antilles through the Turks and Caicos and the southeastern Bahamas by this weekend. Another Hurricane Hunter is scheduled to inspect the storm Wednesday.
Maximum sustained winds: 70 miles per hour.
Gaston is expected to maintain this direction in the near term, but move more northwesterly in the next couple of days.
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Maximum sustained winds have increased to near 70 miles per hour, with higher gusts. The hurricane center’s long-range forecast curves Gaston to the northeast before reaching Bermuda or the U.S. The Storm Prediction Center’s SREF computer ensemble probability of severe shows a broad area of potential severe storms extending from Kansas into portions of IN by Wednesday evening.
