Florida residents should prepare for the possibility of at least a tropical storm this week, with forecasters saying that watches could be issued for the state as early as Monday.
The culprit is an area of low pressure about 300 miles north of Puerto Rico that was producing a large area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms Sunday. Forecasters started calling it Invest 98L.
“This system is forecast to move generally northwestward over the southwestern Atlantic where environmental conditions appear conducive for additional development, and a subtropical or tropical storm is likely to form in the next day or so,” the National Hurricane Center said in its 7 p.m. tropical weather update Sunday.
