One Tropical system which, as of Tuesday morning was k**wn as a Tropical wave, could soon become Tropical storm Hermine as it heads west-**rthwest toward the Bahamas and Puerto Rico.*
Farther out into the Atlantic is a Cape Verde-type Tropical storm, named Gaston. Cape Verde storms form far in the eastern Atlantic, from Tropical waves coming off equatorial Africa and are so named because of their proximity to Cape Verde, on the west coast of Africa.* Read more...