ATLANTIC OCEAN- Watching an Area With Sub-Tropical Low Potential
There's a large area of disturbed weather extending northward from the northeastern Caribbean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean for several hundred miles, as seen on this GOES-East satellite from today at 9:45 a.m. EST. That means a very soggy experience for parts of the Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico today, who may see heavy rain.
The clouds and showers are associated with a weak surface trough (elongated area of low pressure) and an upper-level low.
The National Hurricane Center notes that a surface low pressure system could form in this area later today or tomorrow, and it could briefly acquire subtropical characteristics while moving northwestward. After that time, development is not expected while the disturbance moves north-northeastward and merges with a frontal zone.
There's a large area of disturbed weather extending northward from the northeastern Caribbean Sea into the Atlantic Ocean for several hundred miles, as seen on this GOES-East satellite from today at 9:45 a.m. EST. That means a very soggy experience for parts of the Virgin Islands, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico today, who may see heavy rain.
The clouds and showers are associated with a weak surface trough (elongated area of low pressure) and an upper-level low.
The National Hurricane Center notes that a surface low pressure system could form in this area later today or tomorrow, and it could briefly acquire subtropical characteristics while moving northwestward. After that time, development is not expected while the disturbance moves north-northeastward and merges with a frontal zone.
