The National Hurricane Center’s map of 5-day potential tropical activity shows a wide region off the Atlantic Coast with a 70 percent chance of developing into a tropical system, although the chance in the next 48 hours is near zero. If this does develop into a tropical storm, it would be named Arthur, and would be the latest “A” storm that developed ahead of the official June 1 start to the season, following several other years with early storms. So far it does not look like it will be a threat to the Southeast but it does not hurt to keep an eye out.