Tropical system heading westward toward the Leeward Islands this next week
| Published on August 13, 2011 6:40 am PT – By Kevin Martin – Senior Meteorologist – Article Editor and Approved – Warren Miller |
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(TheWeatherSpace.com) — A wide tropical wave, or Invest 93, is moving across the Central Atlantic will head westward toward the Leeward Islands by the middle of next week.
As of now the system looks favorable for additional development over the next several days and it should be a slow developing system at that.
The system is riding pretty far South which would naturally put it South of Puerto Rico but since it is so far away my forecast “cone of uncertainty” will remain wide, covering Puerto Rico.
The ridge will migrate westward with the system which is leading me to believe this system will actually keep moving due west toward the Leeward/Windward Islands.
Should this forecast be correct we may have a threat into the Gulf Of Mexico within a week and all eyes should remain on this system.
The system is not a threat at the time to the United States being how far away it is and we have plenty of time to forecast the track. Now it is not to say that down the line it will not be a dangerous storm because it very well could be.
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