Just when you think the tropical season is done, we get one last hiccup. The National Hurricane Center posted a 5-day outlook that includes a potential area of development in the central Atlantic with a 50 percent chance of becoming a named storm. This would likely be a subtropical storm, not a true tropical storm, but they do name those now, and even though it’s no threat to us, it could affect some shipping. Stay tuned if you are counting…

You can read more at the Washington Post at https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/12/05/subtropical-storm-atlantic-december-owen/.

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