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"We are watching a tropical wave near the Windward Islands with a medium chance of becoming a tropical depression," the NHC said Sunday.
The National Hurricane Center said Tropical Storm Fernand (pronounced fair-NAHN) formed on Saturday afternoon in the central Atlantic. It’s the sixth named storm of the season. Forecasters said it will stay on a path to the north and stay out on the open ocean, tracking to the east of Bermuda.
Here's a quick, easy-to-read look on the latest about Tropical Storm Fernand and what's happening in the tropics.
Tropical Storm Fernand is expected to form this weekend and follow on Hurricane Erin's heels past the East Coast.
Activity is expected to ramp up, and a disturbance in the eastern Atlantic is likely to become a tropical depression later this week or weekend, according to the National Hurricane Center. AccuWeather forecasters are predicting it could become Tropical Storm Gabrielle before the weekend and could even become a hurricane by the end of the weekend.
Tropical Storm Fernand and Hurricane Gabrielle, which mutated into a monster cyclone, bookended a historically quiet period in the Atlantic Basin hurricane season, but that interval may end up having been the calm before the storms.