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Tropics threats for Jacksonville/NE Florida/SE Georgia: None.
The Atlantic Basin Overview:
(1) Disturbance – ‘98-L’ (’potential tropical cyclone five’) came off the coast of Africa early to mid last week & was upgraded Mon. afternoon, 08/12 to tropical storm “Ernesto” – the 5th named storm of the Atlantic season (avg. date for the 5th storm is Aug. 22) & became a hurricane Wed. morning, Aug. 14 – the 3rd hurricane of the Atlantic season – something that doesn’t happen on avg. until Sept. 7th. Ernesto made the sharp turn to the north staying well east of the U.S. east coast making landfall in Bermuda early Sat., 08/17 as a Cat. 1 hurricane before weakening to a tropical storm Sat. night only to re-strengthen into a hurricane Sunday afternoon.