ORLANDO, Fla. — It may be getting cooler, but there are still 36 days left in the Atlantic hurricane season, and experts are watching an area of disturbance that could produce the next named storm of the year.
The National Hurricane Center is monitoring the U.S. East Coast, where late Monday a gale area was located about 100 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, forecast to move north-northeast for the next couple of days and could acquire some subtropical characteristics before it merges with a frontal system late Tuesday.
Meteorologists forecast a 20% chance of the system becoming a tropical depression in the next two days, and 50% chance by the end of the week, but moving eastward or southeastward over the central Atlantic.
