Eye on the Tropics

UPDATE: Tropical Storm Bill downgraded to post-tropical cyclone

ORLANDO, Fla. — Update: The National Hurricane Center has downgraded Tropical Storm Bill to a post-tropical cyclone.

The center tweeted Tuesday evening that Bill had become extratropical.

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Tropical Storm Bill is moving “very quickly” to the northeast, the National Hurricane Center said.

The storm is continuing to move away from the United States.

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Bill is forecast to become a post-tropical low by Tuesday evening and dissipate on Wednesday, officials said.

Forecasters said the storm’s maximum sustained winds are reaching 60 mph, with higher gusts.

Officials said tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 90 miles.

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Bill is expected to go out to sea.

Meteorologists are monitoring two other disturbances -- one is near Mexico; the other is off the coast of Africa.

NHC said the storm near Mexico is likely to become a tropical depression when it moves across the central or northwestern Gulf of Mexico.

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The storm has a 80% of developing further over the next five days.

The disturbance near Africa has become less organized over the last few hours. Officials said the storm will be slow to develop, if at all.

The storm has a 10% chance at developing further over the next five days.

Katlyn Brieskorn, WFTV.com

Katlyn Brieskorn is a Digital Assignment Editor at WFTV. She joined Channel 9 in July 2019.