Day of High Happening

Hurricane Debby has passed, and the best thing we can say about her is that remnants of the storm rained out last night's Yankees game.  But now showers and thunderstorms associated with a tropical wave currently located in the mid-Atlantic pose the nest threat. Environmental conditions are conducive for gradual development of this system over the next several days while it moves westward to northwestward at 15 to 20 mph across the ocean. A tropical depression is likely to form by the early to middle part of next week while the system approaches and then moves over the Lesser Antilles. Then, the system is forecast to move generally west-northwestward and could approach portions of the Greater Antilles by the middle to latter part of next week. There's a near-certain, 80% chance the system can form into a tropical storm within the next 7 days. If it does, it will be named Ernesto.