Good morning! The tropical wave we were tracking this morning was just upgraded to a tropical storm as of the 11 AM forecast package from the National Hurricane Center. We now have our ninth named storm of the season: Tropical Storm Igor, located about 3,900 miles away from southwest Florida. Lots of time to watch this system, which is generally forecast to move westerly toward the central Atlantic by early next week. The official NHC forecast brings this to hurricane intensity over the weekend. Beyond that, many of our global forecast models sweep Igor out into the open waters of the north-central Atlantic with an eastward moving upper level trough. Ultimately, it's much too early to say what Igor's fate will be down the line, though.
Brian
