NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Wed Oct 9 2024
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Active Systems:
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane Leslie, located over the central sub-tropical Atlantic Ocean, and on Hurricane Milton, located over the southeastern Gulf of Mexico.
Southwestern Atlantic (AL93):
Showers and thunderstorms associated with a gale-force non-tropical low pressure system located about 375 miles west-southwest of Bermuda have become less organized during the last several hours. Although environmental conditions are becoming less favorable for development, a short-lived tropical or subtropical storm could still form today or this evening while the low moves northeastward to east-northeastward at around 15 mph. Upper-level winds are forecast to become too strong for further development later tonight. Additional information on this system, including gale warnings, can be found in High Seas Forecasts issued by the National Weather Service.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...medium...40 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...medium...40 percent.
Eastern Tropical Atlantic:
A tropical wave is expected to move off the west coast of Africa tonight or early Thursday. Afterward, environmental conditions appear only marginally favorable for some limited development of this sys-tem while it moves westward or west-northwestward across the eastern tropical Atlantic and through the Cabo Verde Islands on Friday.
* Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days...low...10 percent.
Forecaster Hagen
