Tropical storm could form around Florida: NHC
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A tropical storm could form around
Florida over the next day or two, the U.S. National Hurricane
Center said Wednesday in an Atlantic tropical weather outlook
at 5:30 a.m. EDT.
The NHC said showers and thunderstorms were currently
located over the Bahamas, central and eastern Cuba and
southeastern Florida.
Over the next couple of days, the system could drift slowly
westward over the Florida Peninsula and into the Gulf of Mexico
where several of the key U.S. oil and natural gas fields and
refineries are located.
The NHC said environmental conditions were unfavorable for
tropical cyclone formation at this time but may become
“somewhat more conducive for some slow development” during the
next day or two.
The Center will call the next storm Beryl.
Elsewhere, the NHC did not expect any tropical storms to
form through Thursday.