Hurricane center back to tracking 1 system that could develop

The National Hurricane Center turned its focus back to a lone system with the chance to form into the season’s next tropical depression or storm.

After keeping tabs on both a system off the coast of Florida that drenched the state for the last couple of days as well as one that was headed toward Central America, the NHC now has its eyes on a tropical wave in the Atlantic located about 1,100 miles east of the Leeward Islands.

“Environmental conditions are expected to be favorable for gradual development of this system during the next few days, and a tropical depression is likely to form during the early part of next week,” forecasters said.

Its projected path, though, is expected to swing west-northwest away from the Caribbean remaining in the open Atlantic chugging along at about 15 mph. It will then swing north-northwest into the central subtropical Atlantic by Monday.

Chances have risen for it to spin up into a tropical cyclone, though, with the NHC giving it a 20% chance to form in the next two days and 70% in the next seven.

If it does gain enough strength to be a named storm, it would become Tropical Storm Emily.

Florida’s wet weather from a tropical wave the moved up the coast and dropped 1-3 inches of rain setting daily records along the Space Coast has moved to the north.

The system prompted flood advisories up Florida’s east coast with the National Weather Service at one point Friday reporting a rain gauge in Fellsmere measured 5 inches of rain.

For now, though, Florida is out of the tropical weather spotlight.

The hurricane season runs from June 1-Nov. 30.