MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) – There’s a chance we see our first tropical depression or named storm in the Atlantic later today.
Thankfully, regardless of development or not, this disturbance does not pose a threat to the United States.
Showers and thunderstorms continue to show signs of organization overnight with an area of the low pressure located about 600 miles east of Bermuda. Recent satellite-derived wind data also indicates the system has a well-defined surface circulation with maximum sustained winds of 30-35 mph. While environmental conditions are only marginally favorable, only a small increase in organization and persistence of the current shower and thunderstorm activity is likely to result in the formation of a short-lived tropical depression or storm, as soon as later today…