Tropical Storm Don weakened in recent hours as it moved over cooler waters on its way through the North Atlantic, and a low-pressure system moving much further south toward the Lesser Antilles also weakened.
According to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), Don, the fourth tropical storm of this hurricane season in the Atlantic basin, is located about 350 miles (565 km) southeast of the Canadian island of Newfoundland and is heading north-northeast at 16 miles per hour (26 km/h) without posing a threat to land.
Its maximum sustained winds are around 65 km / h (100 miles per hour) and they will weaken until they no longer have tropical characteristics this Monday.
Regarding a low pressure system located in the tropical Atlantic, about 1,000 miles (1,600 km) east of the Windward Islands (Lesser Antilles), the NHC indicated that the probability of a cyclone formation has dropped to 30% in the forecast for the next 48 hours and to 40% within seven days.
Nonetheless, this system could still become a tropical depression over the next few days as it moves west across the tropical Atlantic and eastern Caribbean Sea.
Unfavorable upper-level winds are forecast as the system moves into the central Caribbean around midweek, lowering the chances of formation.
The Department of Atmospheric Sciences at Colorado State University (CSU) forecasts for the current hurricane season, which officially began on June 1, a total of 18 named tropical storms and 9 hurricanes.
Of the hurricanes, 4 would be of a higher category, an increase compared to its first forecast in April due to the “extreme anomalous heat” that is recorded on the sea surface.
The average for an Atlantic hurricane season, which ends on November 30, is 14 named storms, 7 hurricanes and 3 major hurricanes.