BY: WEATHER TEAM | BocaNewsNow.com
UPDATE: Read the Sunday update from the National Hurricane Center here.
BOCA RATON, FL (BocaNewsNow.com) (Copyright © 2023 MetroDesk Media, LLC) — There is a 70-percent chance as of Saturday morning that the system marked by the “yellow x” east of Florida becomes a tropical cyclone within the next seven days. The good news: it’s expected to curve away from Florida and head into the northern Atlantic.
This is the official tropical outlook released Saturday by the National Hurricane Center:
Tropical Weather Outlook
NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL
800 AM EDT Sat Jul 29 2023
For the North Atlantic…Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:
Central Tropical Atlantic (AL96):
Disorganized cloudiness and showers located about 1100 miles east of
the Leeward Islands are associated with a tropical wave.
Environmental conditions are expected to be favorable for gradual
development of this system during the next few days, and a tropical
depression is likely to form during the early part of next week.
The disturbance is forecast to move west-northwestward to
northwestward at about 15 mph during the next day or so, and then
turn north-northwestward to northward over the central subtropical
Atlantic Monday and Tuesday.
* Formation chance through 48 hours…low…20 percent.
* Formation chance through 7 days…high…70 percent.
