As I'm sure you've heard in the news, Hurricane Fiona dropped torrential rain on the island of Puerto Rico and walloped the commonwealth with killer winds. All this on the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Maria, but this time an orange-faced clown didn't show up to toss paper towels to the people. The hurricane is expected to stay off of the coast of North America and if it makes landfall at all, it will probably be way up in Nova Scotia.
Hurricane Gaston came up out of almost nowhere. It was already well up into the mid-Atlantic and headed for the British Islands by the time it even formed, but it is expected to fizzle out before it even reaches Britania. It may have to content itself with fucking with the Azores.
The system just north of the coast of Venezuela is almost certain to become at least a tropical depression, if not a hurricane. After that, its path is still uncertain, but is likely to move west-northwestward toward the central Caribbean later this week. Let's hope it doesn't strike Puerto Rico again before it's even dried out from Fiona.
And if all that's not enough, we have two more developing systems in the East Atlantic and Saharan Africa. The National Hurricane Center puts their chance of developing into tropical depressions at 30 to 50 percent but if they do develop, there's no telling yet where they might track.
Happy last day of summer, y'all!
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