Coastal Low Brings Wind and Rough Seas to Portions of the East Coast
The National Hurricane Center raised development odds to 40% as the low threatens coastal flooding, dangerous surf and rip currents along the East Coast.
- On Tuesday, the National Hurricane Center reported a 40% chance that Invest 93L, a powerful low-pressure system located several hundred miles off the North Carolina coast, will develop into a subtropical or tropical storm over the next seven days.
- Invest 93L remains a non-tropical low-pressure area attached to a weather front; however, moving over warm water off the East Coast could help it acquire subtropical characteristics later this week, meteorologists noted.
- Dangerous surf, high winds, and coastal flooding are expected along parts of the East Coast through the week, regardless of whether Invest 93L officially develops into a named storm.
- Forecasters expect the system to move slowly and erratically before turning northeastward away from the United States by week's end, with no direct threat to Florida currently anticipated.
- Should Invest 93L strengthen, it would be named Josephine; the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season continues until Nov 30, leaving time for additional storm development.
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Next tropical storm could form off East Coast before heading out to sea
A low-pressure system churning off the East Coast has a 40% chance of developing into Subtropical Storm Josephine, but forecasters expect its brief window over warm water to close quickly as it moves away from the U.S., according to weather officials.
Invest 93L: Could this strong nor’easter become something more tropical?
Invest 93L is a powerful low-pressure system off the North Carolina coast that could briefly develop subtropical characteristics. The National Hurricane Center is giving it a medium chance of development as it churns up the surf along the East Coast.
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Disturbance off the East Coast bringing dangerous waves could develop later this week
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NHC says 40% chance of cyclone in next 48 hours for storm off US east coast
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