Invest 92L brings wet weather.
Forecasters are tracking a few areas of disturbance this morning. Invest 92L is approaching the Bahamas. It has a 40% chance of tropical development over the next five days. Forecast models show this storm approaching our area, bringing some rain on Tuesday and Wednesday. There is another area of disturbance further out to sea. It is not expected to develop over the next five days.
What is an invest?
An invest in meteorology (short for investigative area, alternatively written INVEST) is a designated area of disturbed weather that is being monitored for tropical cyclone development. Invests are designated by three separate forecast centers: the National Hurricane Center, Central Pacific Hurricane Center and Joint Typhoon Warning Center.
From NOAA
Tropical Weather Outlook NWS National Hurricane Center Miami FL 200 AM EDT Tue Aug 22 2017 For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico: 1.There is a large area of disturbed weather over the northwestern Caribbean Sea. It is associated with the remnants of Harvey. A tropical depression is likely to form over the southwestern Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday or Thursday. * Formation chance through 48 hours...high...70 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...high...90 percent. 2. Shower and thunderstorm activity associated with a broad trough of low pressure near the northwestern Bahamas remains limited. Any development of this system during the next few days should be slow to occur while it moves west-northwestward, and then turns northwestward or northward near Florida and the adjacent waters. Environmental conditions could become a little more conducive for development by the weekend when the system begins to move northeastward over the western Atlantic. * Formation chance through 48 hours...low...10 percent. * Formation chance through 5 days...medium...40 percent. Forecaster BrownTREASURECOAST.COM