Hurricane forming off the east coast.

Invest 98L is expected to move northeastward or north-northeastward near or just offshore of the North Carolina Outer Banks later today and then along the mid-Atlantic coast tonight and Friday.

Invest 98L has an 80% chance of tropical cyclone formation within the next 5 days and an 80% chance within the next 48 hours.

Regardless of development, the system is expected to produce locally heavy rainfall that could cause some flash flooding acrossportions of eastern North Carolina, the coastal mid-Atlantic, and southern New England during the next few days.

Gusty winds are also possible along the North Carolina Outer Banks today, and along the mid-Atlantic and southern New England coasts Friday and Saturday.

Interests in these areas should monitor the progress of this system and refer to products from your local National Weather Service office.

An Air Force Reserve Hurricane Hunter aircraft is scheduled to investigate this system later today, if necessary.

The National Hurricane Center announced Tropical Storm Fay formed off the coast of North Carolina Thursday and is moving up the East Coast.

The system is expected to move up the coast toward New England.

Hasn’t New York City been through enough?

While enduring a pandemic, an economic crash and civil unrest, the city is now bracing for the latest 2020 challenge: Tropical Storm Fay.

The National Hurricane Center issued the warning for New York City, Long Island and coastal New Jersey at 5 p.m. Thursday while announcing Fay’s development just off of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. The storm’s expected to move northward over the next 36 hours and make landfall in the New York City area early Saturday morning.

A few degrees below a hurricane, a tropical storm has sustained winds of between 39 and 74 mph. Fay’s expected to dump between two and five inches of rain across New York City, upstate and eastern New England between tomorrow and Saturday

Tropical storm warnings have been issued for your entire Jersey Shore Thursday night as a strengthening coastal storm was forecast to carry torrential rain and gusty winds to the state on Friday.

A disturbance spinning off the coast of North Carolina was named Tropical Storm Fay Thursday night as winds reached 40 miles per hour at its heart. Fay is predicted to trace north in a single day, bringing deteriorating situations to New Jersey by morning. Sorry Atlantic city but your up.

Fay is the sixth named storm so far this season. Researchers are setting the number for tropical storms, named storms at 20. It’s a high total but looks like it’s on pace; with all of July August and September still left. 

This storm will not intensify. . the prevailing wind direction steers this storm to nine at 9 mph. The track will take it through new Jersey into Philly west side and onto the catskills and dissipate near near Syracuse. It will lose its tropical rain event and diminish to a needed rain maker in drought stricken ne... As for Donnie and his rally... Well better luck next time. But when you call for a witch hunt do expect witches to gain interest.