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Andrea Downgraded Over Colder Atlantic

November 3, 2020
By WeatherBug Meteorologists
The official start of the Atlantic Hurricane season isn’t for another ten days, but the tropical Atlantic has different plans. Andrea, now a port-tropical cyclone, formed late Monday.

As of 5 p.m. EDT, Andrea, downgraded to a remnant low pressure system, was located at 30.8 N, 68.3 W or 230 miles west-southwest of Hamilton, Bermuda. This places it 501 miles southeast of Cape Hatteras, N.C. Maximum sustained winds are 35 mph. Its minimum central pressure is 1009 mb or 29.80 inches of mercury and the storm is moving east-northeast at 8 mph.

A cold front moving off the East Coast will absorb the remnants of Andrea late today into Wednesday.

This is the fifth straight year that a tropical system has formed in May, with the 2016 season seeing a tropical storm form in January. The southwest tropical Atlantic is a common area for tropical system to form in late May and early June as water temperatures from the Gulf Stream are warmer than surrounding areas still chilly from winter.

The official Atlantic Hurricane Season starts on June 1st and forecasts are calling for a near normal season of 10 to 14 named storms to form, four to seven becoming hurricanes and two to three of those becoming major hurricanes.