MACON, Ga. — We currently have three areas of interest out in the tropics outlined by the National Hurricane Center.
The first is actually the remnants of what was Tropical Storm Gordon a few days ago. Gordon has flown under the radar a bit because it formed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean late last week and hasn't affected any land masses. What's left of Gordon has a very low chance to redevelop at 20% for the next 48 hours and 30% over the next week.
The next area is just to left of the remnants of Gordon out in the Atlantic. The chances of development with this are even lower at 10% over the next 48 hours and 20% over the next week. This would look to only pose an impact to Bermuda if it were to form.
Finally, the area we are keeping a close eye on is in the northwest Caribbean Sea and the south Gulf of Mexico. If this is to develop, it would be sometime next week, and the chances of development over the next 7 days has increased from 20% yesterday to 40% as of this morning.
Many long-range models have this system moving north upon organization possibly close to Central Georgia.
This is all but certain this far out, as models have been changing drastically already over the past few days. We won't get a good idea of this potential system's projected path and how strong this storm will get until it begins to form. It remains something we are keeping a close eye on here with the Weather Team, and we will continue to provide updates as we get them.
As of Sept. 19, we have crossed seven names off our Atlantic Hurricane Season name list. The next name for whichever area of interest forms would be Helene, our 8th named storm of the year.
