2009.09.07
Low off Carolinas probably won't become tropical storm
Though the Atlantic tropical season has been underwhelming so far, there is a low-pressure system off the coast of the Carolinas that is being watched by the National Hurricane Center. However, it is given a low chance of development into a tropical system because upper-level winds remain too strong. So this probably won't become a tropical storm or hurricane. We'll be between this system and an upper-level low to the west, and thus there could be showers and some thunderstorms each day this week. National Weather Service radar has shown much of the rain overnight and this morning over West Virginia and the coalfields area of far Southwest Virginia.
A system in the eastern Atlantic just off the African coast is given a high chance of development by the hurricane center. It will likely become Tropical Storm Fred (and probably in time, Hurricane Fred -- unless the East Coast system somehow beats it to tropical development, which would push us down the list to Grace). It will be many days from any possible effects on the coast of the United States or any other North American or Caribbean nations.
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