Hurricane season still does not officially start until June 1st, but the National Hurricane Center has issued Invest 90L for the Atlantic.

 

An area of disturbed weather, associated with a broad surface low centered just east of Belize in the ?Western Caribbean, is spreading showers and thunderstorms over Cuba, the Cayman Islands and Florida. This system was designated 90L by the National Hurricane Center (NHC) on Monday afternoon—the first “invest” of the year in the Atlantic (an "invest" is an area of interest that is worthy of having NHC's special hurricane forecast models make forecasts for). 

 

In a special Tuesday Tropical Weather Outlook, The National Hurricane Center gave the system 2-day and 5-day odds of development of 0% and 40%, respectively. The first name on the Atlantic list of storms for 2018 is Alberto. 

 

About 40% of the 70 ensemble members of the European and GFS models predict that a tropical depression would form over the ?Eastern Gulf of Mexico by early next week. These solutions predominantly predicted a track that would result in landfall between Louisiana and the Florida Panhandle between Saturday and Monday.