Eye on the Tropics

Chance for a named tropical system grows to 70%, outcome still the same, away from Florida

By Irene Sans, WFTV.com

Eye on the Tropics: Severe Weather Center 9 There is a 70% chance for a tropical system to form near the Bahamas this weekend. Good news! It will turn away from Florida, staying over the open Atlantic.

By Irene Sans, WFTV.com

The National Hurricane Center has noted an area of tropical formation east of the Bahamas that could develop within five days near the Bahamas.

This is all linked to all the moisture meandering near the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. This moisture will be retracting northward by Friday. This is the reason why we could get rain on Friday and Saturday. If a system gets better formed, rain chance might actually decrease for Central Florida.

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There is not a chance for this system to develop and affect Central Florida directly. The area monitoring is a couple of hundred miles northeast of the Bahamas and if anything does develop, it will move away from Florida.

If this system is named, it would make the sixth consecutive year that there is a storm named before the official start of the season.

Hurricane season officially starts June 1 and ends November 30.

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