Image from the National Weather Center

WE may have the second named storm this year.

The likelihood that a tropical wave moving west from the coast of Africa will develop into a tropical depression by Monday morning has increased to 50%. The National Hurricane Center issued the new prediction Saturday, and said the chance of a depression within seven days remained at 70%. The wave, several hundred miles south-southwest of the Cabo Verde Islands, “continues to produce a broad area of disorganized showers and thunderstorms, the Hurricane Center said at midday. It said the system was moving west at 15 mph to 20 mph in the Atlantic Ocean. If it organizes and strengthens into a tropical storm, it will be named Bret.

Where will it go? I vote Florida!

Hurricane Season 2023 – 18 June 2023