With two weeks left in the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season you don’t usually see too many systems form, but a large area of storms about 800 miles east of Bermuda is making a run to do just that, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
This morning, the center gives the patch of messy weather a 60 percent chance of developing into a subtropical or tropical cyclone in the next two days and chances grow in the five-day outlook.
Whether it does get organized or not, it is not expected to pose any threat to land, staying well out to sea instead.
Wondering what the difference is between tropical and subtropical? The National Hurricane Center’s definition for subtropical notes “such systems have a relatively broad zone of maximum winds that is located farther from the center, and typically have a less symmetric wind field and distribution of convection” as compared to a tropical system.