ORLANDO, Fla. – The National Hurricane Center has given a 30% chance for tropical development in the next two days and a 70% chance in the next week.
An area of low pressure is expected to form this weekend and could become a tropical depression. Long-range models are unclear about its path, but it may move north into the Gulf by midweek.
An area of high pressure to the east of Florida will influence its direction. The key question is whether this high will be strong enough to steer the storm into Central America or if it could turn north into the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
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Additionally, another area near the northern Caribbean has a 10% chance of development in the next two to seven days, but it’s likely to be absorbed by the expected low in the southwestern Caribbean. A non-tropical system in the northern Atlantic has a 10% chance for subtropical development in the next two to seven days.
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