Chantel Becoming Extratropical, The Other Disturbance

Chantel was upgraded to a tropical storm this morning and tonight is becoming extratropical over the open north Atlantic waters. The 11pm advisory is the last advisory issued by them. That was quick.

About 500 miles east of the Windward islands is an area of concern, though nothing immediate for south Florida. This system is moving into an area the appears to favor development, so I will continue to watch it. Models are forecasting this to develop and head towards the west, well south of Florida. Here is an IR image of this system from tonight.

Image of TD3

Here is TD3 in the Atlantic tonight.

Tropical Depression #3

Quick post, TD3 will be announced at 11PM. Initial coordinates will be 35.5N/66.5W max winds 35mph. Minimum pressure 1007mb.

This system poses no threat to Florida or the east coast of the United States.

More Storms on Sunday

Very active weather day this afternoon. One tornado in Miami-Dade county and a funnel cloud over Boca Raton near the intersection of Palmetto Park Road and Powerline Road around 3:35pm. As of now it looks like more thunderstorms will be around tomorrow afternoon so we will have to look at the morning upper air parameters to get an idea of what kind of severe threat we may have. So please check back in the morning.

Also we are watching the area of disturbed weather east of the Bahamas. Upper air conditions are starting to become a bit more favorable for development so I will be monitoring this area very closely, again more on this in the morning.