A non-tropical system located in the eastern Atlantic has increasingly low chances of becoming a subtropical or tropical storm as it moves over cooler waters, forecasters say.
The area of low pressure is producing disorganized showers and thunderstorms in the eastern subtropical Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center. If it were to become a tropical storm, it would be named Vince.
The low developed Thursday along a front in the central Atlantic, according to the National Hurricane Center. As of 1 p.m. Saturday, its odds of developing had dropped to close to 0% in the next two to seven days, down from 70% earlier in the week.
The system is forecast to move north-northeastward at 25 mph over much colder waters later Saturday and become embedded in a cold air mass with frontal boundaries, according to the hurricane center.
Non-tropical systems, such as the Atlantic low, and the storm that dumped up to 12 inches of rain on areas of South Florida last week, gain their energy from cold and warm air interacting, while tropical systems gain their energy from warm ocean waters.
There have been 19 named storms this Atlantic hurricane season this year, seven of which were hurricanes. Three of them were major hurricanes, meaning at least a Category 3.
The two remaining names for storms from the year’s initial 21-name list are Vince and Whitney.
Hurricane season ends Nov. 30.
