WATCHING THE TROPICS!

We, along with the brilliant meteorologists at the National Hurricane Center are monitoring an area of possible tropical development east of the Lesser Antilles Islands. Currently, NHC gives this area a 60% chance of developing into at least a tropical depression as it approaches the US East Coast. While its not time to cancel any beach trips yet, I certainly would keep an eye on this over the next 5 days as impacts are POSSIBLE somewhere along the east coast.

Let it be very clear that outside of what I just stated, there is no other known information about this system. It is over a week away from having an impact, if any at all, to the east coast. Could there be an east coast landfalling tropical system? Possibly. But it is entirely possible that this curves and heads out to sea with little to no impact. You are going to see a lot of people posting random model runs showing an unrealistic worst case scenario that will never happen, which they are doing to spread fear and false information. So please, do not listen to anyone who is saying anything other than "keep an eye on the forecast and watch for updates" because we simply (and I mean no one) don't know where this will go IF it even develops. Yep that's right, it hasn't even developed yet so anyone saying otherwise is unfortunately lying to you. 

Senior Forecaster Jack