MIAMI, Florida – NOAA‘s National Hurricane Center has issued a Tropical Weather Outlook at 8 a.m. EDT on Friday, May 24, 2024, which predicts a low (10%) chance of an area of disturbed weather becoming a tropical cyclone far off the east coast of Florida during the next 48 hours.
The system, dubbed Invest 90L, is a trough of low pressure is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms a few hundred miles to the northeast of the central Bahamas.
An area of low pressure is expected to form within this system roughly halfway between Bermuda and Hispaniola later today.
NHC forecasters say that although environmental conditions are not conducive, some slight subtropical or tropical development is possible over the next couple of days while the system moves northeastward.
An area of low pressure is expected to form within this system a few hundred miles north of Hispaniola in the next day or so.
Invest 90L has a 10% chance of tropical cyclone formation within the next 48 hours and a 10% chance within the next 7 days.
If a tropical storm does form, the first name on the 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Names List is Tropical Storm Alberto.
The 2024 Atlantic Hurricane season begins June 1 and ends November 30.
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