UPDATE: NHC Lowers Prediction for Tropical Cyclone in Atlantic

The National Hurricane Center in Miami has lowered the chances that a tropical cyclone could form in the Atlantic from 60 percent to 10 percent [See IJ web site – https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2010/06/14/110696.htm ].

The latest NHC bulletin said that “although shower and thunderstorm activity associated with the low pressure system located about 850 miles east of the Lesser Antilles has increased tonight, upper-level winds are unfavorable for tropical cyclone formation.”

The forecast concluded that there is a “low chance, 10 percent, of this system becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours as it moves west-northwestward to northwestward near 15 mph.”

Source: National Hurricane Center