Been a very slow tropical season, but I see a swirl of thunderstorms in the Atlantic which looks like it should be declared a storm any time now. The odd thing is that it's very far north for a storm to form, about the latitude of New Jersey, normally where storms begin to fizzle out as the hit colder water. It's probably right over the Gulf Stream, which is fueling it. I suspect it only has a short window to keep going, as it's chugging along at a brisk pace and once it moves further north

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