Eta moving out over the Atlantic; Watching Invest-98L in the Caribbean

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On 4:20 a.m. Thursday, Tropical Storm Eta has made landfall near Cedar Key, Florida with maximum sustained winds of 50 mph. This is the second landfall in the state of Florida, after the first Sunday night in the Lower Keys.

As of 10 p.m. Thursday, Eta is now a weaker tropical storm off the coast South Carolina coast in the western Atlantic with 45 mph winds. Eta will eventually merge with a cold front and dissipate Saturday.

Elsewhere, the Weather Authority is monitoring a tropical wave (Invest 98-L) over the central Caribbean Sea trying to get better organized.

Due to favorable conditions and more convective activity, it’s looking likely that a tropical depression, or even a tropical storm, will form by this weekend. After that, it will move westward towards Central America into the first half of next week.

Right now, it does not look like it will be a threat to the United States (we have a blocking area of high pressure to thank for that!), but just in case that changes, it will be something worth keeping an eye on.

The next name on the list is Iota.

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