Gaston’s Remnants Gasping for Rebirth Over the Leewards

The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston are still alive in the Atlantic Ocean basin, and are still gasping for another chance at life. GOES-13 satellite imagery from earlier today, September 7 showed Gaston’s remnants over the Leeward Islands and the northeastern Caribbean Sea.

All that’s left of Gaston are clouds and showers in the northeastern Caribbean, and a visible satellite image from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite called GOES-13 captured them at 15:45 UTC (11:45 a.m. EDT) today. GOES-13 is one of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites operated by NOAA. NASA’s GOES Project at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, in Greenbelt, Md. creates images and animations from GOES satellite data.

Gaston’s remnants are moving westward at 15 to 20 mph farther into the Caribbean Sea, but are not expected to develop much in the next couple of days because of an unfriendly environment. The National Hurricane Center gives Gaston only a 10 percent chance of rebirth in the next 48 hours.

Meanwhile, two other areas in the Atlantic Ocean that forecasters are watching also have a meager 10 percent chance of development. One is about 350 miles west of the northernmost Cape Verde Islands. It has disorganized clouds and showers and they’re expected to stay that way for the next couple of days.

The second area of showers and thunderstorms are even farther east, between the Cape Verde Islands and the west coast of Africa. That area of disturbed weather is associated with a tropical wave and it’s moving west between 10 and 15 mph.

All three of these systems in the Atlantic basin will be slow to develop over the next couple of days, so it’s a slow start to the week for the Atlantic tropics.