As expected Kirk has dissipated in the strong wind shear over the Caribbean. Leslie has regained subtropical status.

Leslie is gradually showing some tropical characteristics with deep convection focused near the center. But it is still attached to a complex low, keeping it at subtropical status.

Leslie is sitting in an area of shear, but it will move into warmer water over the next few days as the shear lessens allowing the storm to become fully tropical and strengthen.

Computer models are in good agreement with Leslie meandering in the north central Atlantic for several more days. Large swells generated by the storm are reaching Bermuda and will soon reach the Greater and Lesser Antilles.

Tropical Storm Kirk has crossed into the eastern Caribbean with strong winds still impacting parts of the Lesser Antilles. Post Tropical Cyclone Leslie is generating more shower activity and will likely become a subtropical storm again later today or tomorrow.

Leslie remains several hundred miles west of the Azores with storm force winds well away from its center. Models keep Leslie over the central Atlantic for the next few days with dangerous high seas and winds.

Tropical Storm Kirk is a sheared system with most of the convection focused on the east side. Even though the center has crossed the islands, squalls and tropical storm force winds remain possible in the Windward Islands and southern Leeward Islands today. Locally heavy rain and flash flooding are still a threat.

Kirk will move west and continue to be impacted by high shear over the Caribbean basin. Kirk will weaken into a depression later today or Saturday and become a trough of low pressure by late Saturday.