Good Morning,
Two features of fleeting interest. A large wave, 92L, over western Cuba and the Yucatan Channel is drifting north west into the western GoMex. Models have been inconclusive as to if 92L becomes a full-fledged tropical storm. Latest runs say no, yet the National Hurricane Center is giving it an 80% chance of becoming a closed tropical circulation. Unless the State annexes the Florida Panhandle over the weekend, 92L is not a threat, save for a soggy weekend as 92L merges with the stationary front parked offshore.
The National Hurricane Center issued the initial advisory on Tropical Depression 5 under the cover of darkness late last night. Currently due south of the Cape Verde Islands in a galaxy far, far away, TD 5 is drifting west at 15 mph with slow intensification. Conditions are adequate for additional intensification for the next 48 hours. TD 5 will encounter dry air and cooler water temperatures as it passes 040W. Models are in decent agreement with TD 5 fizzling out, alone and unafraid, over the central Atlantic early next week.
Mark Malsick
Severe Weather Liaison
South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
