Tropical storm warnings have been issued for portions of the Carolinas ahead of Potential Tropical Cyclone 8. Tropical storm-force winds, flash flooding, coastal flooding, and high surf will be its main hazards beginning tonight and continuing for the next few days.

This system will take the name “Helene” if it organizes before landfall.

Models have been in good agreement on the potential locations it would move on shore. Potential Tropical Cyclone 8 is not a threat to Florida.

Meanwhile, we still have Gordon in the central tropical Atlantic. Gordon is a tropical depression and will likely remain out at sea after curving away from the United States later this week.

Tropical Storm Gordon has formed in the central tropical Atlantic. This is the seventh named storm of the season.

Gordon will undergo cycles of strengthening and weakening over the next week as it continues to move west-northwest. It is currently far away from land.

The overwhelming majority of weather models still show that weakness in high pressure to its north will most likely steer this system out to sea within the next week or so. If this is the case, it would be the first named storm of 2024 to not make landfall at some point within its lifespan.