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Sandy, Soon?

| October 21, 2012 @ 1:09 pm

Low pressure at the southern end of a tropical wave in the Caribbean northwest of Columbia continues to slowly organize.  It is designated disturbance 99L by the National Hurricane Center. 

The low should move northward in the days ahead, becoming a tropical depression soon and a tropical storm by Tuesday or so.  Next in the line of tropical storm names is Sandy. 

The storm should approach eastern Cuba by early Thursday.  It should move over the Central Bahamas on Friday.  By Saturday, it will be over open water north of the Bahamas.  It could be a strong tropical storm by then.  It will slowly move up the East Coast early in the week, perhaps even threatening the Mid-Atlantic by midweek. 

So, the tropics are not done yet. 

There is another disturbance (90L) about 850 miles east northeast of the Leeward Islands.  It should be absorbed by a frontal system in the next couple of days before becoming a depression. 

We do note that the National Hurricane Center gives the system a 30% chance of becoming a depression, however.

Category: Tropical

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