Storm Team 10 and the National Hurricane Center are tracking two tropical waves for tropical development that are located in the central and eastern Atlantic. The first wave in the central Atlantic has a 90% chance of developing into a tropical system as the wave moves northwest into the western Atlantic. This wave should take […]

It didn’t take long for Erin to dissipate and now we have ourselves a new storm named Tropical Storm Fernand in the Atlantic Ocean. It officially became tropical storm status Saturday afternoon as it travels northward at 15-mph with maximum sustained winds of 40-mph.

The former Hurricane Erin headed out to sea and became a non-tropical system on Friday, but the National Hurricane Center continued to track two other systems on Saturday in the Atlantic. One of them could become Tropical Storm Fernand soon. As of Saturday morning that system was located about 500 miles south-southeast of Bermuda.

The massive storm is expected to bring coastal flooding and tropical storm conditions to parts of the mid-Atlantic despite not making landfall.

Forecasters are tracking two tropical disturbances behind Hurricane Erin, but neither shows signs of becoming an immediate threat to land. One system east of the Lesser Antilles has only a medium chance of development,

The Ocean City Beach Patrol has closed the ocean to swimming, wading and surfing Tuesday as tropical storm activity off the coast brings dangerous conditions to the resort town.

The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two areas in the Atlantic Ocean for potential tropical development behind Hurricane Erin, with the closest area to watch expected to to track near Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.